(file/Express photo by Abhinav Saha)A fortnight ago, as a precursor to the Ivanka Trump-attended Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad which begins today, another summit took place in in Dantewada, in Chhatisgarh. As local tribal farmers from Dantewada slowly walked from one to the other, and found an unassuming someone behind the counter who seemed very much like them, the interactions opened up. Some asked whether coffee from Koraput could be grown in Dantewada, others talked about improving tamarind production. Now, government officials working on organic farming are welcomed by the villagers. This encouragement of organic tribal farming from the government has come, after farmers in Dantewada, in particular, complained that government policies in previous years to increase production were becoming counterproductive.

Source: Indian Express November 28, 2017 10:18 UTC