Global News by Tag: Farming
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Ignoring the scorching heat of the midafternoon sun, Dhanamaya Shrestha, a poultry farmer, is busy with her 1,500 chickens.
It’s time for her to feed them.
SELIBE-PHIKWE, BOTSWANA – Segwabe Morathi, a retired religious minister, works as a farmer in a village on the outskirts of Selibe-Phikwe, a small mining town in eastern Botswana. He says farming is not easy in Botswana, where a semiarid desert means that the weather is unpredictable. A changing climate has only made rain more unreliable, he says.
UKUWELA, CENTRAL PROVINCE, SRI LANKA – Thilak Kandegama, a local environmentalist, manages the Kandyan Forest Garden, a natural farm in Ukuwela, a village in Sri Lanka’s Central Province.
Kandegama started this 12-acre farm in 2009 with the goal of creating an environmentally friendly farming system. He says that crops should be cultivated in a way that protects the environmental balance in Sri Lanka, a country rich in biodiversity.
AGBUNGBU, NIGERIA – Before 7 a.m., women and their children hurry to their farms with baskets, hoes and cutlasses in the serene village of Agbungbu in southwestern Nigeria.
“We need to get to the farm early before the sun comes out and make[s] it difficult for us to finish the day’s work,” one woman, Omokunnu Ajiun, says. “The way the sun comes out these days is like it is nearer us, and it will be [as] hot as if one is in hell.”
PAMPORE, KASHMIR – “World’s Best Saffron Grows Here,” proclaims a billboard on the side of highway near Pampore, a small city just 15 kilometers from Srinagar, one of the capital city's here. Pampore is the heartland of Kashmir’s saffron country. But the slogan, referencing what has been this areas claim to fame, is losing its veracity.