Arul Mouzhi “lf we fail one sort of crop, the other one will give an income.”
Mrs. Arul Mouzhi is a woman farmer living in Kongathiranpatti village who owns three acres of dry land and one acre of irrigated land. Arul and her family eat millet twice a week. She gets her millet and vegetable seeds from Kolunji Ecological Farm and Training Center,an IPAM Field Learning Site managed by Kudumbam. Kolunji […]
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Abdul Hamid, Leading a community towards agroecology
For the longest time, irrigated High-Yielding Variety (HYV) rice has been Abdul Hamid’s primary source of income like many others. But for the last five years, he planted only half the amount that he did in the previous years. The HYV rice is extremely wa• ter-consuming to grow. During harvest time, Hamid experienced terrible water […]
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