Digital Green catalyses a quiet revolution in Indian villages

Farmers are improving crop yields, using new technologies besides learning video-making skills - thanks to Digital Green which is catalysing a quiet revolution in the little hamlets of India. Its founder, Rikin Gandhi, has been named as a top young innovator by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Delhi-based Digital Green focusses on educating farmers about farming techniques through locally produced videos in which local cultivators are featured. The project works in over 200 villages across Jharkhand, Orissa, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh with seven NGOs, helping famers improve their living standards and productivity.

'We do not produce the videos ourselves but rather facilitate the process of training people from the community in the production of locally relevant videos,' Gandhi, 29, told IANS.

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