Sustainable agriculture in India: Women farmers in Odisha harvesting paddy. Women farmers form a significant portion of the workforce in agriculture in India but hardly get any monetary benefits from it. (Photo by Anshuman Mohanty)
Toiling hard in a flooded field with a bullock cart. Despite the availability of tractors many farmers who have small-scale farms still use the traditional way of tilling using oxen. (Photo by Amrita Ghosh)
Resilience – A farmer walks home with his harvest for the day. Most small-scale farmers grow grass for animal fodder along with a cash crop like wheat or paddy. (Photo by Anshuman Mohanty)
Harvesting – A farmer harvests potatoes from his field. Small-scale farmers grow vegetables for personal use as well as to sell in local marketplace if the produce is more. (Photo by Animesh Maji)
Farming of new era – With developing technology, farmers in Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, are using innovative technology to grow more crops with less water through mulching. (Photo by Hemant Kumar Pandya)
Technology in farming – A farmer working in a flooded parcel of paddy field with a tractor to till the soil (Photo by Kausik Paul)
Women farmers sorting the red chillies at a field near Dhar, Madhya Pradesh (Photo by Chetan Soni)
Betel leaf collector- A farmer in Purba, West Bengal, plucking the mature dark green betel leaves from the vines powered by sustainable agriculture. The leaves then are sold to be rolled into beedis, which remains a cottage industry in India. (Photo by Animesh Maji)
A woman farmer sun-dries her harvest. (Photo by Nimai Chandra Ghosh)
In Jalna, Maharashtra, farmers harvest wheat and fill in gunny sacks to be sold in the local mandi. (Photo by Chaitanya Naik)
The lead image at the top shows cultivation – a couple sow paddy in their field. Across India, paddy is grown in many states (Photo by Shibasish Saha)
