Eco India: Meet the farmers who are preserving India's heirloom rice varieties one seed at a time

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. We travelled to Kerala to look at how the need to conserve traditional varieties of paddy became a people’s movement to revive rice culture and create sustainable rice ecosystems.

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CREDITS:

Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla

Associate Producer & Script: Shibika Suresh

Director of Photography: Mohammad Ismail Shaikh

Video Editor: Sujit Lad

Field Producers: Sijo Jose, Ranish Pandit

Assistant Producers: Dewang Trivedi, Gautam Phadnis

With Inputs From: Bhagyashree Nair, Sangeeta Suresh

Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu

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