Herbert from Siddhartha Farm is here since 1993. After he arrived he started to work with agriculture which was hardly developed at that time. Promoting organic cultures he started Siddhartha Farm whe...

Over-irrigation is the number one reason for the overexploitation of groundwater. With free electricity from the government, pumps are often left on 24 hours a day. An organic farmer of Maharashtra ca...

Annapurna Farm is located about 10 kilometres outside Auroville on the road to Mailam. It compromises of a 135 acres of land and is Auroville's biggest farm. It works with organic methods only. Rice i...

Windmills for pumping water have been designed and built in Auroville since the early pioneering days. The present AV 55 windmill is a state of the art machine, which has some highly sophisticated fea...