August 19, 2022

From Collecting Forest Produce to Collective Farming
by Suman Gayen, Baghmundi, West Bengal

Amidst the lush green forest in the foothills of Ajodhya Hill range lies a small village called Chirugora. The village has 121 households with a total population of 795 - 391 women and 404 men. Chirugora alias Chirudi comes under Baghmundi block of Purulia district, West Bengal.
August 19, 2022

The making of a sustainable FPO
by Amit Prasad Dash, Rayagada

“तोरपा FPO महिला किसान के विकास के लिए उत्क्रिस्ट कार्य किया है एवं आजकल किसानो को उचित मूल्य पर कृषि इनपुट सुनिश्चित करवाने एवं उनके फसल उद्पाद को बाज़ार व्यवस्था करवाने में FPO का सराहनीय योगदान रहा है |”   जीतेन्द्र मिन्ज, प्रखंड सहकारिता पदाधिकारी , तोरपा
July 18, 2022

Muni’s Quantum LEAP
by Amit Prasad Dash, Rayagada

One room, seven members in that – sleeping, eating, chatting – all there. Eating was less, especially during the months when their own crops would finish and there won’t be enough money to buy food. Muni Heprika, a woman belonging to the Kandha tribe from Karagadi village of Kolnara block in Rayagada district of Odisha, was brought up like this.
June 10, 2022

All the little wonders!!
by Thriti Das, DA, Team Churchu, Hazaribagh

May 16, 2022

The Dilemma
by Nargis Ansari, Ghaghra, Jharkhand

March 31, 2022

When Life Gives You Lemons – Make Lemonade
by Rasmirani Bhoi, Karanjia

February 14, 2022

Got a Faulty Motorbike? Indravati Can Fix It
by Anurudh Kumar Shastri, Narayanganj

Manoj Warkade died when he was barely 25. The oldest of three siblings, Manoj loved to ride motorbike. He would ride his machine through meadows, farm fields – at times cross rivulets, and climb hillocks [. . .]
January 14, 2022

Diptimayee secures her ‘nutrition & money’ from a 0.05 acre Farm Pond
by Chandramani Sabar, Suakati

Diptimayee Nayak loves to eat fish. And, so do the other members of her six-member family, and most of the people living in Odisha (per capita fish consumption is 13.79kg/annum in Odisha, while the national average stands at 6.5 kgs per person).
January 12, 2022

Once Rupees Eleven, Now Forty Million: Aamon
by Sourangshu Banerjee, Kharika Mathani

Farmers of Nayagram block of West Bengal would work with all their might round the year to earn Rs.60,000 or so. That was all to meet their family expenses. Their crop looked exotic, but could never fetch handsome cash income from the local market.
December 27, 2021

" मुस्कान "
— क़ायनात अहमद, देवसर

अपनी case study वाली दीदी के लिए दिमाग़ में सोचे सवालों की श्रंखला में से मैंने एक को चुना "किस चीज़ से ख़ुशी मिलती है दीदी आपको?" मैंने अपने पैर अपने दिल के समीप समेटते हुए पूछा