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He was one of the most prominent civil society activists in the country, who founded the DDS in Zaheerabad in 1983

PV Satheesh was founder and Executive Director of Deccan Development Society (DDS) that worked out of Pastapur village in Sangareddy district of Telangana, where last rites of the 77-year-old will take place on Monday at 10.30 am.

Our Correspondent Kohima, Oct. 14 (EMN): Indigenous crops should be protected and its ‘purity’ maintained; adopt good cultivation practices, identify medicinal and high-yielding crops with indigenous methods as well as improvise it, said Temsuinla, Joint Director of State Agriculture Research Station, Yisemyong, Mokokchung. She was addressing the inaugural programme of the ‘Confluence of Rural Women’, a workshop on “Millets and women- success, challenges and strategies”, at JMC in Kohima on Friday. The event was organised by Northeast Network (NEN) in collaboration with...

Our CorrespondentKohima, Aug. 31 (EMN): Meluri Millet Sisters, in collaboration with Millet Network of India and Northeast Network (NEN), celebrated the 2nd edition of ‘Millet Festival’ in Meluri village under Phek district on August 31 on the theme ‘Celebrating common heritage for a shared, resilient future.’ The SDAO of Meluri and special guest of the event, Phrumasie Nyuthe, has stressed on the importance of agriculture, without which human sustenance and livelihood would be impossible. He advocated that millet, being known as the most tolerable crop for human health, should be pres...

30 October 2015 - She does not shout slogans and sit on dharnas, she is unlikely to have heard of Marx, and armed rebellion is nowhere on her horizon. Her revolution is embedded in the basics of life: soil, seeds, water, sun, and knowledge born of generations of living with these natural elements. On just 3 acres of rainfed land in one of India’s driest regions, she has grown 45 crop varieties, produced enough to feed her family for the whole year, and earned Rs. 2 lakhs selling the surplus. Having spent Rs. 18000 on the farm, this has given her a hefty income of Rs. 1.8 lakhs. This, in a y...