How these Telangana women farmers rode out the pandemic
Live MintSixty-five-year-old M Mogullamma, a Dalit farmer from Telangana, is almost offended when asked if the pandemic, the lockdown and the economic slowdown affected her livelihood. As women farmers trying to make ends meet, they’ve focused on growing indigenous crops that can weather wild changes in climate, and crops with nutritional over commercial value to sustain their families first. Instead of the usual harvest of about 100 quintals per acre, last year I could harvest only 75 quintals,” says Sanjeev Rathod, a farmer from Gousabad village who owns nine acres of land. “We could see a difference between organic farmers like us and the farmers who use fertilisers such as urea,” Mogullama says. So when it rained excessively, all of it was destroyed and they could not harvest anything.” By sowing a wider variety of crops, farmers like Mogullama diversified their risks “I sowed 25 crops in my 1.5 acres of land.
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