Primate Change For Climate Change – “Meet 53-Year Old Gauri Nayak From Karnataka – Who Dug Two Wells 60 Feet Deep Each In 6 Months By Working 6 Hours Daily To Irrigate The Plants In Her Field”

Do you have a better idea in fighting Climate Change? I am asking as a Filipino agriculturist & journalist loudly worried about the unnatural changes in climate wrought by the unnatural behaviors of man in farming.

With the news, India seems to be one of the first brave stands when it comes to fighting Climate Change – and 53-year old Gauri Nayak from Karnataka has shown what one person can do, if woman, to fight Climate Change.

Climate-related news from Gabe Whisnant & Andrew Stanton (12 March 2025, “EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action In US History,” Climate Change, epa.gov):

“Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a sweeping rollback of landmark environmental regulations on Wednesday, targeting rules on coal-fired power plant pollution, Climate Change policies, and electric vehicles.”

“Rollback” – back to the past bad practices!?

And all that does not bother/does not stop Gauri in her farming.

Instead of digging dirt about politicians who keep on ignoring Climate Change in her country India, 53-year old Gauri Nayak of Karnataka has dug in her property 2 wells in 6 months, both 60 feet deep. To store water when there is water – and have water when everywhere else is dry. That is all to be able to irrigate her plants in her field. 2 wells, 6 months of hard work, as it is all hand work!

I 86 years old salute 53-year old Ms Gauri for not giving up on her farming.

Well done, Ms Gauri! But instead of encouraging all women farmers in India (or in my own dear Philippines) to follow the footsteps of Ms Gauri, I am hereby urging the Department of Agriculture of India (and the same government department in my country the Philippines) to adopt climate-friendly Regenerative Agriculture (RA), the technologies being as follows:

(1) Cover Cropping,
(2) Crop Rotation,
(3) Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry),
(4) Green Manuring,
(5) Intercropping,
(6) Multiple Cropping,
(7) No-Till Farming,
(8) Organic Fertilization,
(9) Ratooning,
(10) Rotational Grazing,
(11) “Three Sisters” Planting,
(12) Trap Cropping, and
(13) Trash Mulching.

RA does not call for extreme (if effective) solutions like digging a hole or two, each 60 feet deep, where to store water for the dry months.

RA is all au naturel, all natural. In any of the 13 methods of RA, the farmer does not need any amount of chemical fertilizer or any amount of chemical pesticide. Nor does any of the crops need any irrigation. Each of the 13 RA methods takes care of pests and diseases by each own natural operations – like in farm preparation, any RA method encourages the natural decaying of vegetation and, therefore, the natural holding of soil moisture for the farmer’s crop, and therefore the natural starving and therefore dispatching of tiny organisms that depend on vegetation for living!

With any farmer who regenerates her/his field, s/he regenerates her slice of life in this planet!@517