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Cultivating Agroecological Farming in Northeast India

Samir Bordoloi, an ORA India 2023 Fellow, is at the forefront of agroecological farming in Northeast India. He is dedicated to co-creating a thriving farming community and promoting a happy and healthy lifestyle through environmentally friendly practices. His work emphasizes providing nourishing, and healing food while maintaining a deep respect for nature.

With a young brigade of his Green Commandos, Samir is currently working with the farmers of Northeast India to blend inherited local food wisdom with ecological farming practices. He lives in his food forest of wild and edible local plants reflecting a life of coexistence with nature. 

Over the next six months, Samir will be working in the remote hills of Mizoram & Assam, helping farmers in developing food forests in traditionally slash and burn areas. 

Discover more about Samir’s impactful work:

Man and the Wild

A documentary made by award-winning environmental film-maker Shantanu Sen of Water Burial fame depicting the food forest and compassionate natural farming model of Farmer Samir Bordoloi, the protagonist.

Growing Assam Tea naturally as Tea Trees in a Tea jungle.

Unpruned tea trees as tree jungle gives a healing tea with a balanced Agroecological way of farming. Join Farmer Samir Bordoloi in the movement to a healthy way of life.

Seed Bombing ! How to make seed bombs?

Farmer Samir Bordoloi and his Green Commandos show you how to make seed bombs and make the world more green with minimizing the tillage operations to conserve and build our soil microbial world for a balanced life.

Yams over grenades’ in Assam. Samir Bordoloi & his green commandos make farming cool again

Samir Bordoloi’s Assam food forest has brought the elephants back to the jungle by planting bamboo trees. They no longer trample the village rice fields.

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