Seeds Of The Future

How the fruit of a ‘chaunsa-kesar’ mango sapling could serve as a bridge for India-Pakistan peace

Peace activists carried a Pakistani ‘chaunsa’ sapling across the border and grafted it with a kesar mango plant at the Peace Hill Garden in Maharashtra.

Katherine Abraham
· Mar 22, 2024 · 11:30 am
Back to their roots: Dongrias of Niyamgiri are reviving indigenous seeds to cope with climate change

The Adivasi community had over the years gravitated toward rice monoculture, losing numerous landrace strains in the process.

Sonali Prasad
· Dec 24, 2018 · 09:30 pm
A bank for seeds: In Telangana, a safehouse secures the future of agriculture

The genebank hosts 126,830 accessions (samples of a particular plant/crop population stored as seeds) collected from 144 countries.

Sahana Ghosh
· Oct 11, 2018 · 01:30 pm