Venkatesh Kulkarni - Mango, Cashew Nut
Abhay Mutalik Desai - Sugarcane
Frits Ringma - Water
Birke Baehr - 11-year-old Organic Food Activist
Vandana Shiva - the Future of Food and Seed
Jeffrey Smith - the Dangers of GMO FoodClimate Change
The Tapovan Story - Climate Engineering
Homa Farm: Tapovan
Parola, District: Jalgaon
Maharashtra, India
climate change
In December, 2009 there was an unseasonal storm in the Dhule/ Jalgaon region of North Maharashtra. 35,000 hectares of farmland was damaged. Hundreds of thousands of rupees of crop losses were reported by farmers in the area. In the district of Parola 49 villages were affected. In some places, 2 feet of ice were reported in the fields from the hail storm. The ice remained in some fields for 3 days after the storm.
Abhay Mutalik Desai - Climate Engineering
Village: Sutakatti, District: Belgaum
Karnataka, India
climate engineering
Dr O.P. Rupela, Chief Scientist (retired), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, visited the farm recently and reported:
"The crop production system in this Homa farm reflects a complete balance, which can only be achieved when Nature is in perfect balance and harmony. The farm is a good place of education and research for agricultural scientists..."
