AGRARIAN REVOLUTIONARY

A tireless advocate for empowerment of rural communities, PV Satheesh will remain an inspiration

- RAMANJANEYULU G V

A COUPLE of decades ago, Pastapur village near Zaheerabad, Telangana, was the place for many of us looking for alternative models to alleviate India’s agricultural crises. This is where P V Satheesh, the visionary leader he was, had nurtured Dalit women groups with little or no resources to establish models that were forerunners of many of the ideas discussed today, be it millet-based cropping systems, community-based seed or grain banks, direct marketing of agricultural produce, or reviving and using rainfed areas.