1. Natural farming is one of the Government’s key strategies to reduce input costs and it is promoting this to encourage farmers to move to chemical-free agriculture as part of efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.

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2. The`Namo Drone Didi’ scheme announced in November 2023 by the Centre and a separate one by the Haryana government in August 2024, could bring in greater benefits if the drones they have been trained to operate were used to sprinkle nano-fertilisers, say the Didis.

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3.  A single decision to take up solar power irrigation in 2023 has helped Devki Devi and Sunita Devi defy the odds to transform their lives. Today, they are hailed as “Solar Didis” in their villages. These women entrepreneurs use solar-powered irrigation pumps to help small and marginal farmers water their fields.

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4. Smelling an opportunity in the burgeoning global wellness market, ITC Limited is branching out much beyond traditional crops such as wheat and rice to cultivate a new field: medicinal and aromatic plants.

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