Screenshot of an online plant clinic in southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. Ramasamy and his colleagues have been able to provide timely advice via the Web to farmers who showed them samples of sick crops to reduce their losses even during the lockdown, also sharing information on where they could get pesticides. — Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anuradha Nagaraj
CHENNAI, India: When Victor Mary’s husband decided to travel abroad for work, he left her a plot of land to cultivate in southern India and a new mobile phone that would help them stay in touch.
Fresh to farming, Mary found herself struggling after India’s coronavirus lockdown began in March, unsure of how to fight the pests attacking her paddy and groundnut crops.
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