A landless labourer collects butterfly pea flower petals after farming the plants on rented plots in rural Kanpur. Photo: Vikas Choudhary/CSE
Agriculture

Herbal survival in rural Kanpur

In Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat, landless farmers grow butterfly pea flowers on rented plots, finding new livelihoods through herbal cash crop farming

Vikas Choudhary
A landless labourer collects butterfly pea flower petals after farming the plants on rented plots in rural Kanpur.