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Kong Happy Kyndait with her lantana plant

Shkenpyrsit ALC member goes chemical-free by creating natural pesticide

In today's day and age, almost many farmers use chemicals and fertilizers to help grow their crops and plants. However, on the other hand, a handful of farmers make use…

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Delving into Sasatgre, and the rapidly declining Sasat Tree

Sasatgre in West Garo Hills is an active participating partner village of NESFAS. The village of Sasatgre, erstwhile Rongdikgre, has an interesting story to its name. The word Sasat is…

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Tragedy or Triumph of the commons?

A few weeks ago the author visited the Directorate of Agriculture with one of his colleagues from NESFAS (North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society). During a discussion, one of the senior staff of the Department remarked that the lack of proper registration of land holdings has been responsible for the farmers in the State missing financial ben

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