As the harvesting season approaches, farmers employ migrant labourers to work on their lands. However, in recent years, there has been friction between labourers and farmers in Madhya Pradesh over daily wages and things came to a head recently at Vidisha, where the labourers staged a protest.

Bihar is India’s most flood-prone state and recurring floods, apart from displacing millions every year, also contribute to human trafficking as poor families spend several months in flood relief camps from where their children are lured into ‘jobs’. Gaon Connection met several such children and here is what they told us.

In his courtyard in Srinagar, Ashiq Hussain grows spinach, collard greens, coriander, mint, and other vegetables, most of which are ready for harvest in 45 days. Hydroponics, or soilless farming, is picking up in the Valley.

In his courtyard in Srinagar, Ashiq Hussain grows spinach, collard greens, coriander, mint, and other vegetables, most of which are ready for harvest in 45 days. Hydroponics, or soilless farming, is picking up in the Valley.

Carpet weaving on handlooms is fraying at the edges for the Julaha community of weavers of Jasowar Pahadi in Mirzapur district, who are unable to make ends meet anymore.

The measure of rising heat in the country isn’t just colour coded heat stress maps or a bumper sale of air-conditioners. There is a human face to it and that face is often of a migrant worker, or a daily wage farm labourer. If you look closer, many of those faces belong to rural women.