How Indian farmers are preserving the good earth


Organic farmer N. Gopalakrishnan makes his own vermicompost using these African night crawler earthworms.

Malaysian farmers take a peek into the books of organic farmers in India.

YONG Weng Thing was amazed when he saw the field of spinach. Being a farmer himself, he knows good quality stuff when he sees it and quickly helped himself to the greens. A bunch of spinach in hand, he gestured a thumbs up to R. Venkatrasa, owner of the organic farm in a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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