Eco India: Meet the farmers who are preserving India's heirloom rice varieties one seed at a time

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. We travelled to Kerala to look at how the need to conserve traditional varieties of paddy became a people’s movement to revive rice culture and create sustainable rice ecosystems. ********** CREDITS: Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Associate Producer & Script: Shibika Suresh Director of Photography: Mohammad Ismail Shaikh Video Editor: Sujit Lad Field Producers: Sijo Jose, Ranish Pandit Assistant Producers: Dewang Trivedi, Gautam Phadnis With Inputs From: Bhagyashree Nair, Sangeeta Suresh Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu ********** Eco India is a co-production between DW and Scroll.in. You can watch the full episodes on scroll.in/ecoindia Subscribe to get the latest episodes of Eco India - https://bit.ly/2M9WTXn For more explainers, and the web’s most interesting videos - https://scroll.in/video/ For the latest news and analysis - https://scroll.in  Follow Scroll.in here-  Facebook:   / scroll.in   Twitter:   / scroll_in   Instagram:   / scroll_in   Mastodon: https://masthead.social/@Scroll

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Eco India: How Kerala's farmers are adapting to the growing crisis of its rubber industry

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This 70-year old farmer's lifelong mission is to save Kerala's traditional rice varieties

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Eco India: This town in Kerala has set its sights on becoming India's first carbon-neutral panchayat

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