Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Feature | One Liter Farming | Makeshift Magazine

One farmer’s free invention could produce India’s calories using a tiny fraction of the water

Sundaram Verma says that to nourish each plant in the sun-scorched fields of India’s Rajasthan state, farmers have to pour out 20 liters of water, on multiple occasions—a hot commodity in drought years. What if, he proposed, the same seedling only needed a single liter of water to survive?

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