'Permaculture potential is huge in India'

Dwarakanath Jnaneswar Ekkirala,Dwarakanath teaches permaculture design certificate courses based on the curriculum designed by founder Bill Mollison. He is currently working on many projects, along with his students and fellow permaculturists, for creating sustainable, resilient and abundant systems in both urban and rural sectors

'Suicidal thoughts among farmers can be triggered because of non-agricultural problems as well'

Harprit Kaur,head of the psychology department, Punjabi University

'Biotechnology does not mean only GM crops'

Rajeev Varshney ,Global research programme director, genetic gains, ICRISAT. He is also a Winthrop research professor at the University of Western Australia and has 15 years research experience in international agriculture