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Dealing with COVID-19 has been tough for most rural communities, but it has also had some unexpected positives.<\/p>

The elderly from Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra are rejoicing in the fact that this season, a majority of the households in their villages have taken up farming again. Prior to the pandemic, most of the fields were barren, since the youngsters no longer worked on farms.<\/p>

“The lack of other work and the strict lockdown resulted in most people staying at home, with a lot of idle time. We thought we might as well make the most of it,” says Shashank Nandoskar, a driver by profession from Kudal, who has started cultivating paddy after many years.<\/p>

He adds that he wanted to farm on more land in the vicinity, but since most of the villagers restarted farming, he was unable to do so.<\/p>

Simit Bhagat is a social development practitioner and documentary filmmaker based out of Mumbai.<\/em><\/p>

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Know more: <\/strong>Read more about what’s next for agriculture in India<\/a>.<\/p>

Do more: <\/strong>Connect with the author at S.Bhagat@alumni.ids.ac.uk<\/a> to understand more about and support his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3279,"template":"","categories":[36,31],"tags":[],"series":[],"meta-filter":[],"schema-filter":[743],"no-display":[],"class_list":["post-3278","ground_up_stories","type-ground_up_stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-ground-up","contributor-simit-bhagat","states-maharashtra","schema-filter-article"],"yoast_head":"\nCOVID-19: Looking at the bright side | Ground Up | India Development Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Coronavirus | #groundupstories aim to bridge the gap between development practice, decision making and ground realities across India.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idronline.org\/ground-up-stories\/looking-at-the-bright-side\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"kn_IN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at the bright side\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dealing with COVID-19 has been tough for most rural communities, but it has also had some unexpected positives. 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