Hillcrest village gets a new road to the mandi after ten years of requests
The 6 km road cuts the trip for a loaded trolley from two hours to forty minutes.
Rural life
Self-help group in Greenfield runs the village's first seed bank
Members lend local seed to farmers, who return one and a half times the amount after harvest.
In pictures: harvest festival in Lakeview villages
Music, fresh grain, decorated bullocks and a fair on the riverbank.
Young farmers return to Riverbend villages to run a milk collection centre
Three graduates now test and chill milk from 300 households twice a day.
Video: how one village council saved rainwater in a dry year
Check dams and a cleaned village pond kept wells full until spring.
