Degraded Lands Transformed into Productive Farms: With Science, We Can Create Wonders

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Degraded Lands Transformed into Productive Farms: With Science, We Can Create Wonders

In a degraded and semi-arid farming area in India, simple science-driven changes to the landscape have colored the horizon, and a village’s fortunes, with green. In the Latur district in the central western state of Maharashtra, 40 years of erratic rainfall, groundwater depletion, soil erosion, and crop failures have impoverished the local people. In the […] The post Degraded Lands Transformed into Productive Farms: With Science, We Can Create W…