Natabar Sarangi

Natabar continues to find, save and share his
indigenous rice seed with local farmers.
To date he has managed to re-introduce
over 350 varieties.

But it's not just about the indigenous rice seed
of India or about the survival of a sustainable
agriculture system with the knowledge of
over ten thousand years.

It's about a global phenomenon taking place
where a non-sustainable system systematically
destroys a sustainable one, where short term
profit has the power to overwhelm common
sense and the consciousness of many millions,
where progress is not progress but the wanton
destruction of an eco-system and environment
we will never be able to replace.

Natabar Sarangi is just one of a growing
number of farmers throughout the world who
realise that if we do not begin to repair the
damage taking place to our agricultural systems
and our environment, we will lose not just our
cultural identity but our fundamental right to a
truly sustainable system of food security.

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• food
• India
• orissa
• rice
• environment
• farmer
• future
• climate change
• farming
• agriculture
• canon 5d
• HD
• development
• sustainability
• progress

[vidaripollen]

superb production.100 percent on the mark.i work a garden n seen and done agriculture for 25 yrs now.it works.organic farms are viable n produce plenty of food year after year with no external inputs.sorry sandeep249...

[Verghese78]

@sandeep249 you are obviously a little stupid and totally disconnected from reality. If you bothered to research the reality rather than the fantasy that people like you live in you would understand the truth. Its out there! Its just a little more complicated than the version fed to you by the people who want you to believe that there is no alternative to their systems of destruction and control. Most of the world is hungry Sandeep. try and work out why!!? good luck

[sandeep249]

I dont buy the science behind the arguement. If it wasnt for hybrid, bio-engineered crops, most of the world's population would be starving. It is because of this science that famines have become almost non-existent.

[harshhita]

Humans are a part, and infact a product of nature. Yet they try to 'change' it rather than 'adapt' to it. When taken to extreme 'change', we pave a path for self-destruction. Thanks to people like him, we may still be saved from ourselves. Very well made too!!

[Jugnikabir]

Cheers to the people like him the dying agriculture is rejuvenating

[Duffy274]

Very poignant and clearly illustrates the perils of monoculture practices; whether it be palm oil, rice fields or anything else, we need to realise that our planet's strength exists due to its biodiversity... before it's too late. :(

Very well made. :)