Children. Parents.
Milk.
Telangana, 12. 4-crore strong in 1.12 lakh square kilometres. ~20% is forest cover. 48% urban. GSDP, Rs.15 lakh crore. ~ 5% of India’s GDP. It is growing at 7%+ vis-à-vis the country’s 5.6%. Telangana’s working population is concentrated in Farming, Forestry, Fishing – 47%; Services – 33%; Manufacturing – 10%; Construction – 8%. Services contribute 60%+ GS Value-add. Telangana 2047 vision is to be a 3 Trillion Dollar economy – 1 trillion by 2034. Its major challenges include public debt; disparities between the booming capital region of Hyderabad and rural areas; unemployment; lower literacy and education standards. Hope it comes out of these and goes towards Golden T 2047.
Southwest monsoon. By 4 June. El Nino is developing rapidly. Drier conditions in Southern Asia, including India. We may receive below-average monsoon rainfall; longer dry spells; uneven distribution. Seed pelleted pre-monsoon dry sowing, 365 day green cover NF may help farmers.
G Parameshwara is likely deputy to DK Shivakumar. Siddaramaiah in Congress Working Committee.
Annamalai leaves BJP, to launch a new political/non-political outfit/movement.
Yes, it is official. At 2200 hrs IST, 2 June 2026. We have won the Food Planet Prize 2026. From more than 1000+ nominations worldwide. Food Planet Prize is presented by the Curt Bergfors Foundation and is the world’s largest environmental award. APCNF has won. The natural farmers of AP, India and the world have won. N- consumers. N-life livers. See www.foodplanetprize.org.
Food Planet Prize says:
‘Over a million Indian farmers moving to natural farming: APCNF wins the 2026 Food Planet Prize’.
Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) has been awarded the Food Planet Prize 2026—the world’s largest environmental award—for its role in leading one of the most ambitious transitions to agroecology ever undertaken. The prize, worth $1.5m, was presented in Båstad, Sweden, on June 2.
Over the past ten years, 1.8 million farmers in southern India have joined what is now one of the world’s largest transitions to natural agriculture—and the numbers keep growing. Launched by the government of Andhra Pradesh, APCNF works through women’s collectives and a network of over 10,000 farmer trainers to help smallholders abandon synthetic inputs in favour of natural farming practices rooted in soil science and traditional knowledge. Farmer scientists and mentors help document and strengthen natural farming practices. Year-round cover cropping and pre-monsoon dry sowing are among the methods being adopted across more than 8,000 villages.
Winning the Prize will let APCNF go even further: More demonstration sites for visitors from India and beyond—to show the world what community-managed natural farming actually looks like; Country-by-country toolkits for large-scale, locally adapted implementation; New research partnerships to keep building the evidence base; A natural farming leadership course; More support for “farmer scientists”—smallholders trained at an academy to design and document their own field experiments, treating the farmers as legitimate leaders and the farms as sites of agricultural research.
Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, co-chair of the Food Planet Prize jury commented: ‘APCNF demonstrates how nature-positive farming can be implemented across entire communities and regions, providing a scalable pathway for millions of farmers while simultaneously improving livelihoods, resilience, and environmental outcomes….’.
Vijay Kumar Thallam, Executive Vice Chairman, RySS said: ‘APCNF is honoured to receive the 2026 Food Planet Prize on behalf of 1.8 million farm families, 700,000 farmworker families, and the 340,000 women’s self-help groups driving this transformation. We accept this Award for farmers across India who are showing the world a climate-resilient, nature-positive pathway, and we thank the scientists. A special thanks to Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu whose vision made it possible. This recognition strengthens our resolve to scale natural farming to all 6 million farmers of Andhra Pradesh.’
In response, AP CM: ‘Thank you, Food Planet Prize 2026, the world’s largest environmental award for food systems, for recognising the 1.8 million strong APCNF, the world’s largest Natural Farming Programme. …. it is a ‘First’ for India. …. Andhra Pradesh will not rest here. We would like to make Andhra Pradesh a 100% natural Andhra Pradesh by 2047. Restoring our resources, rejuvenating our farmlands, strengthening farmers’ wellbeing and healing the planet. …. seeding natural farming in other States and outside. Congratulations to our team, farmers and women in this movement.’.
AP Agri Minister: ‘….. A landmark recognition for Andhra Pradesh and India’s agricultural transformation. Thanks to natural farming , A.P’s 1.8 million farmers are reducing input costs and raising net incomes right from the first Year. Over 10,000 Community Resource Persons, 60% of them women, are driving farmer-to-farmer learning across the state. We are proud that 22 Indian states and two countries, Zambia and Sri Lanka, are actively replicating this model.’
AP Agri Special CS: ‘….This recognition reflects what becomes possible when government policy, community institutions, and scientific knowledge align behind a common vision. The Government of Andhra Pradesh made a policy choice, 10 years ago to treat natural farming as a state-wide agricultural transformation, backed by Community Resource Persons in every village and the organisational strength of our Women’s Self Help Groups. AP would march to be a 100% NF AP soon.’
To raise resources, focus around core organizational agenda, purpose, vision, and strategy matter. Can we have long-term and short-term ambitions first? Can we converse on them? No fragmented programmes to win people, partners and funds in the long run. Can we front-end programme leads in raising resources? Shared team(s)? Decentralized resource mobilization? Our distinctiveness, our uniqueness, our theory of change? Narratives, stories, within broader narrative, storyline. Simply. Can we communicate, converse with our people, teams, partners? Not just communications.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Living, livelihoods, leading, learning. In N? Jeevanayoga for 7L.