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Koraput District
A successful model of integrated farming system in Koraput
Posted on 03 Dec, 2022 07:23 AMRapid population growth is leading to land fragmentation and reducing the amount of cultivable land available to owners. This trend of declining land ownership combined with natural disasters is reducing the viability and sustainability of agriculture.
Combating Covid-19 collectively: DHAN’s way
Posted on 10 Apr, 2020 12:21 PMAs the Covid-19 pandemic reaches new corners of the country, the NGO community in India has been preparing itself to respond to the unexpected needs that the crisis is producing. DHAN Foundation, a professional development organisation working in several states of India with the communities has begun to develop a strategy.
Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
Waiting for water
Posted on 15 Nov, 2017 05:50 AMIn the early hours, the villagers of Khalabari, a tribal-dominated village in the Dumuripadar gram panchayat of Koraput district in Odisha step out of their houses for bringing wood and drinking water. The road to the forest where the water is available is rocky.
Strict action against polluters throwing puja waste in the Yamuna
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 10:19 PMDelhi Government gets strict towards Yamuna pollution
Applications invited for ' Ecovillage Design Education Course', Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI), Koraput, Orissa, September10-October 8, 2013
Posted on 10 Aug, 2013 08:07 AMFor details on the sustainable training course please click here
You may also download the brochure for the course from below
Fixed deposits of grain turn to gold
Posted on 19 Jul, 2012 07:55 AMVillagers in one of the poorest districts in the country were caught up in a vicious cycle of starvation, debt and human bondage until the arrival of a social activist, Bidyut Mohanty, changed their lives.
SRI sammans for 2010-11 awarded to 35 farmers at symposium organised by Pragati in Koraput, Orissa - A report
Posted on 16 Apr, 2011 03:37 PMThese farmers were rewarded for successfully increasing the production of paddy using SRI in different parts of Koraput district.
Shodh Yatra in Orissa and UP : Lessons in understanding the communities in different geographies and environment
Posted on 04 Nov, 2009 06:20 AM
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
What kind of a walk must have Ralph Waldo Emerson had, to pen down these lines?