Ambuja Foundation's lift irrigation work in Farraka, West Bengal, has been featured in Village Square - a public interest communications initiative, focusing on rural India. The story outlines how Ambuja Foundation helped farmers expand from growing just 1 crop a year, to growing 2-3 crops per year.
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Anagha Mahajani - GM, Program Research & Monitoring at Ambuja Foundation has over 25 years' experience in the development sector and is a qualified management and research practitioner with publications to her credit.
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For many developing countries increasing agricultural productivity is a key to poverty reduction. The over-dependence on monsoons is not a sustainable one & irrigated agriculture remains a resource that many poor producers want, and still ask for.
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Farmers remain a vulnerable section of the community and with the nation-wide Corona Virus lockdown taking place during the peak of rabi season in India, when crops like paddy, wheat, gram, lentil, and mustard are at harvestable stage or almost reaching maturity, farmers have had to face increased vulnerability.
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Ambuja Foundation has been working in the hills of Himachal Pradesh for the last 2 decades, tackling social issues and community needs one by one.
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'New projects' are an integral part of life at Ambuja Foundation
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Working on the ground in remote areas of Himachal Pradesh presents a variety of unique challenges for on-ground implementation teams.
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When Ambuja Foundation commenced work in Darlaghat they soon realized that water was the most pressing issue impacting the community.
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In 2017 the Central Government launched an initiative to 'double farmer incomes' as a key way of tackling widespread poverty and resultant farmer suicides across the nation.
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Agriculture is a way of life in India, and has a rich, traditional knowledge that is largely inherited within families - being passed from one generation to another.
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Agriculture is a way of life in India and farming know how is traditionally passed on from one generation to another.
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It's a familiar sight in rural villages - Women crouched over mud stoves with smoke billowing into their faces, as they cook for their families. It comes at a cost & it's usually their health, which is impacted from inhaling large amounts of smoke while cooking.
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