Hope in a heap
Till last year, Laksman Rao Kaldate of Istal village in Maharashtra’s Beed district thought that the agricultural waste generated in his soyabean fields had little economic value. In fact, most farmers of the area had hardly any use for agrowaste. “The common practice was to burn it down,” says Kaldate. This year, however, farmers of the region found that the refuse could actually fetch them high returns. The Natural Sugar and Allied Industries (nsai)