{"id":6866,"date":"2025-05-27T05:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:42:44","slug":"beyond-survival-farming-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/beyond-survival-farming-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Survival: Farming for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, I\u2019ve seen the fields of rural India weather the challenges of rugged terrain, erratic rainfall, and shrinking landholdings. Agriculture, the backbone of life here, often felt less like a path to prosperity and more like a test of survival. In regions with hilly, undulating terrain\u2014interspersed with forest patches\u2014nearly 70% of rainfall escapes as surface run-off, leaving the land dry soon after the monsoon. With most households dependent on rain-fed farming, sustaining livelihoods becomes increasingly difficult without reliable water sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,2342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}