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International NGO Access Agriculture
Paul Van Mele
paul@accessagriculture.org
With some colleagues, I have found an international NGO called Access Agriculture that promotes South-South learning among farmers.
With it, we manage two open-source video-sharing websites. One, Access Agriculture, where quality and scripted videos are freely downloadable in
over 65 languages. Second, Agtube where anyone from the South can upload their own videos or small clips in any format or language they wish. It would be great if you can help promote these resources through your network.
We will certainly review your very interesting sites and high-quality videos in the Honey Bee Newsletter. I have a thought which you may consider, of SRISTI partnering with you and jointly, we can develop videos of some of the sustainable HBN practices to go with some of the common problem areas.
Let us think about it, given the fact that HBN is the biggest database of its kind so far. -Ed.
Invitation to set up a Honey Comb at old-age home
Chetan Soni
chetan.sheows@gmail.com
I work with Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphan Welfare Society (SHEOWS).
We take care of helpless elderly and downtrodden people found on the streets of Delhi, struggling for a square meal a day and having nowhere to go. We provide them with love, care, food, shelter and healthcare. Also, we perform cremations free of cost. A Guru Vishram Vridhh Ashram (old-age home) is also managed by SHEOWS. After setting up of the Ashram, we have provided completely free-of-cost care and shelter service to over 2,500 elderly people. About 1,350 residents have been cremated and more than 970 have been rehabilitated or sent back to their homes. We wish to set up a Honey Comb (Honey Bee) in Our Garhmukteshwar Ashram and seek your help on the same. It is very nice to hear about such a benevolent service.
I assume that you think we are involved in rearing honey bees. But, we actually work on innovations by common people where honey bee is the metaphor. Its behaviour is a source of inspiration to us, for cross pollination of ideas and recognising creativity.
If you are interested in innovations by common people (sristi.org and nifindia.org), please let us know.
Assuring of our best wishes and support always. -Ed.
Article on the shodhyatra to Arunachal Pradesh
Vishnupriya Sengupta
sengupta.vishnupriya@gmail.com
I wrote a story on the shodhyatra to Arunachal Pradesh for The Telegraph.
It was published, timed with the launch of the Festival of Innovation 2016. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160306/jsp/7days/story_73003.jsp
Many thanks Vishnupriya. Stay engaged and help us bring out a Bengali version of Honey Bee. Gather a few volunteers and we can take this further. All the best. -Ed.
Invitation to collaborate with Sahapedia
Sudha Gopalakrishnan
sudha.gopalakrishnan@sahapedia.org.in
It gives me great pleasure that Sahapedia, an open, online encyclopaedic resource on Indian arts, culture and heritage, has reached an important milestone in a journey that started in 2010. Sahapedia’s website, on which we have been working for the past five years, in terms of content creation and partnerships, and the past year in terms of development, is now ready for launch.
Some of the areas Sahapedia covers are knowledge systems, textual and oral traditions, visual and performing arts, literature and languages, space and practices, history, institutions and people. We wish to make this encyclopaedia freely available to everyone, in collaboration with institutions, experts, practitioners and interested people from all areas of cultural activity.
As we keep building the resource, we seek your continued involvement with and support for Sahapedia.
Wonderful to hear this Sudha!
Our warmest wishes for the success of such a noble endeavour. -Ed
QR codes in textbooks
Ranjitsinh Disale
onlyranjitsinh@gmail.com
I am very happy to inform you that my innovation of using QR codes in textbooks has been accepted by the Government of Maharashtra. The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research has printed all the text books of Standard 6 with this technology. I am now developing digital material for this project, including audio/video format of poems. I think this will help overcome the digital divide. This way the digital citizens of digital India will be nurtured in a digital classroom.
Very nice to hear this. Congratulations. It will bring another level of experience, at least for those having access to smartphones, to see videos or hear audios explaning various concepts or seeing picture galleries, without making the books bulkier.
Keep it up.
Looking forward to many more innovations. -Ed.
There are quite a good numbers
of reactions to Ama Akhapakha,
the Odia version of Honey Bee. Some are:
We prepared deworming medicines for our goats after reading Ama Akhapakha. I taught this to other farmers and they are getting good results as well.
Bijay Mahanta, Udala, Mayurbhanj
We find Ama Akhapakha suitable for
our tribal students and livelihood generation on livestock keeping and agriculture. Please visit our tribal schools in Keonjhar district and teach the students how to prepare herbal pesticides.
Padmashree Tulasi Munda, social activist, Keonjhar
There are many cattle of indigenous variety in our village whom we treat with the indigenous herbal skills described in your magazine. These are very effective and we are able to prepare them ourselves.
Madhurangada, Khamar, Kendrapada
I treated three cases of diarrhoea in calves in my village after reading Ama Akhapakha. All of them were successfully cured, with no expenditure for which we are grateful.
Dhanu Sahu, Tulasipal, Angul
Ama Akhapakha is very useful for income generation in villages. Our rural communities will be benefited by the practises covered in it.
Subash Das, New York, USA
Please organise a training for our farmers on herbal treatment of domestic
animals. Some of the practices you mentioned during one meeting on indigenous livestock keeping is working very well.
Sajal Kulkarni, BAIF, Nagpur, Maharashtra
“It is good to know that practices from
the Honey Bee (Ama Akhapakha) are
being tried and tested, and reaping
good results. Congratulations on being
able to take forward the honey bee philosophy.” –Ed.
Herbal pesticides improve human health
K M Chellamuthu, Karukkampalayam village, Oonjalur Via Erode District
I have been engaged with spraying herbal pesticides on crops on a daily-wage basis. While spraying, I inhale the pesticides which has a direct effect on increasing my appetite. But, when I spray chemical pesticides, I get a suffocating headache and nausea. Few years back, when I was spraying once, a lady (suffering from fever) happened to pass by me and the mist fell on her accidentally. To our surprise, she reported that she recovered from fever quickly. The herbal pesticides not only protect crop but, its exposure to humans also improves their health.
Yours is a good observation. Herbal pesticides do have some positive effects when compared with the chemical ones, which may cause a variety of adverse health effects. - Ed
Flourishing Richa 2000 red gram
Vasimalai, DHAN Foundation, Madurai
I planted three seeds of Rich 2000 in my compound. Later, I didn’t pay much attention to them but, to my surprise, all three of them germinated and grew up to the size of a grown-up papaya tree. They have been yielding profusely and my wife harvested more than 10 kg of pods and seeds, which we distributed to farmers. The performance of Richa 2000 is marvellous.
It is good to know that practices from the Honey Bee are being tried and tested, and reaping good results. Congratulations. - Ed
Driving innovation across the apparel industry
Chalinda Abeykoon, Sri Lanka
We at Brandix have been following the Honey Bee Network for some time and we have been working on creating a similar platform within our community. Last year, Brandix launched a new company under the title “Disrupt Unlimited”. Our main goal is to drive disruptive innovation across the apparel industry. Under this, we have multiple programmes, targeting innovators and budding entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka. We also run programmes within Brandix, home to about 45,000 staff. We want to learn more and see how we could collaborate with HBN in a formal manner.
We will be happy to hear more about your plans and efforts made to link creativity and innovation in formal and informal sector. Honey Bee Network welcomes such initiatives. All the best. – Ed
Documenting all bycycle-based innovations for a book
Matteo de Mayda, Italy
I am a photographer. I went to a little village in Guatemala during my previous assignment, following a group of crazy brave farmers who use bicycles to produce shampoo, shelling corn and pulling out water from a well. I’ve also been to China, telling about workers around the Forbidden City who use bicycle as mobile shops. These days, I am editing some pictures I took of New York’s bicycle culture.
I would like to come to India to shoot some of the bicycle-based innovations. The idea is to make a personal project about different bicycle cultures and ways in which it is used around the world. Could your organisation help me to get in touch with the fabulous innovators?
Definitely. We have sent you the coordinates but in case you need some more information for planning your meetings with innovators, let us know. We hope that your interest in Honey Bee Network will continue. Please do share with us any worthwhile innovation you come across. |
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