A pheromone trap to catch insects without using pesticides. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A farmer in Kunidedu village inspects a pheromone trap to catch insects without using pesticides. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A Drongo bird sits on a pheromone trap to catch insects without using pesticides. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A Drongo bird sits on a pheromone trap to catch insects without using pesticides. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A Dragonfly in a paddy field that doesn't use pesticides and on which is practised non-pesticidal management (NPM). NPM lets friendly insects proliferate. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A Butterfly in a paddy field that doesn't use pesticides and on which is practised non-pesticidal management (NPM). NPM lets friendly insects proliferate. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A paddy field on which is practised non-pesticidal management (NPM). NPM lets friendly insects proliferate. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
A paddy field on which is practised non-pesticidal management (NPM). NPM lets friendly insects proliferate. This is a paddy field in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
Farmers who practise non-pesticidal management (NPM). NPM lets friendly insects proliferate. This is village Kunidedu of Panyam Mandal, Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, which produces the famous rice used for Hyderabadi biryani.
G V Ramanjneyulu, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, addresses a meeting on NPM at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Yagantipalle in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
G V Ramanjneyulu, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, addresses a meeting on NPM at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Yagantipalle in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
There were reports from both, Punjab and Haryana, of national highways, state highways, link roads and railway tracks being completely blocked, bringing road and rail traffic to a halt. In other states like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, the shutdown evoked a mixed response. Here, two protestors sit near barricades put up by the administration at Ghazipur.