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Issue No: 369-370, April-May 2020

The Annapurna community farm

Deer in the rice fields of Annapurna.Like so many Auroville projects, Annapurna farm started with a simple keet-roofed hut, no money to speak of, not many expectations but with high aspirations. That was at the end of 1980s. Annapurna was to become Auroville’s largest food producing farm. With its 135 acres and heavy clayey soil, cultivating field crops such as rice, millets and pulses was the option of choice as these were not being produced by any other Auroville farm.The farm set up a windmill, a biogas unit, and used animal traction and solar energy. But over the years, Annapurna’s managers realised that rigidly adhering to these environmentally-friendly values would mean that the farm would produce very little food and Auroville would have to buy more conventionally grown rice, millets and dairy products from the open market. A shift of focus became necessary, and in the late 1990s Annapurna went ‘less green’ to become more productive. “Our products were not as environmentall...
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Issue No. 369-370, April-May 2020

  • Auroville locked down
  • Deep adaptation and Auroville
  • The energy challenge
  • Planning for a different future
  • The food and farming challenge
  • Out of necessity?
  • Deep adaptation: the Findhorn experience
  • Is the Auroville economy ready for a post-fossil fuel, post-climate crisis era?
  • Corona is here, but where is the Karuna?
  • Restoring the Earth
  • Housing development lacks momentum
  • Home is where the heart is
  • The Annapurna community farm
  • African Pavilion: Bringing the African identity to Auroville
  • India’s traditional crafts revitalised in students’ hands
  • The Auroville Effect
  • Passing: Jayaraman Ramalingam
  • Passing: Roger Harris
  • Letter
  • News in brief

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