![]() It was no coincidence, then, that they attracted the internationally recognised Japanese spiritualist and Buddhist farmer Masanobu Fukuoka into their lives. But there was more to be done, or rather undone. Since 1978, they had been battling the legacy of the Green Revolution - hybrid seeds, pesticides, fertilisers - to redeem the promise of rishi kheti (farming as practiced by ancient sages), a practice that involves letting nature take its course. ![]() ![]() In 1983, a group of 20 farmers in Rasulia, a small village near Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh, was trying to find an alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture. Especially for a civilisation obsessed with jumping from one complexity to another while simultaneously idealising simplicity. Do-nothing’ or minimal interference is a radical idea. ![]()
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