Juhi Chawla offers field to landless ryots

Actress-environmentalist Juhi Chawla has come forward to help farmers during the ongoing lockdown. She has a family farmland on the outskirts of Mumbai where a team of experts practice organic farming.

Juhi has now opened it for landless farmers to grow rice this season. "Since we're in a lockdown, I've decided to give our land to landless farmers to farm on. We're letting them farm rice this season and in return take a small portion of the produce for themselves," she said.

"It's not a new practice. It's just going back to the past to the way farming was done decades ago, but then isn't that the wiser way? Our farmers know the land, soil, wind and air far better than we city people ever will from our text book knowledge," she added.