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‘Village Mad Man’ Helps Farmers Protect Their Fields With Low-Cost Bio-Fencing
Imagine a fence around a farm which grows every day and protects the farmland from stray cattle and wild animals. It makes the crop resilient from pest attacks, helps maintain soil structure and...
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This Ancient Agricultural Method Helps Farmers Fight Climate Change &...
“The climate catastrophe timer is going to go off, and we don’t have much time,” reads the 2021 IPCC report. With a growing global population and changing dietary habits pushing up food consumption,...
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MBA Grad Quits Job To Grow Residue-Free Thai Guavas, Earns Over Rs 1 Crore
Nainital-born Rajeev Bhaskar never thought the experience he gained working at a seeds company in Raipur would one day help him become a successful farmer and entrepreneur. As part of the sales and...
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Engineering Prof Grows All Veggies for his Kitchen in Recycled Refrigerators...
Neyveli-resident and engineering professor Thayumanavan Kunapalan’s Facebook cover photo is a painting of a farmer ploughing the land with two bullocks. His social media bio reads, “passionate urban...
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IIM Grad’s Hydroponics Startup Helps 5000 Farmers Earn More; Wins Rs 65 Lakh...
“On my Panvel farm, I tried growing cherry tomatoes using hydroponics but faced difficulties from day one,” says Siva Ramakrishnan, a farmer from Mumbai. He adds that the production was never up to...
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Kerala Farmer Grows Apple, Almond Trees in ‘Miracle Air Pots’ in Half The...
You might think that the best way to grow trees is directly on the ground, but Kattappana-native Bijumon Antony disagrees. “Even growing trees on land can lead to tangling of roots and thereby slow...
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An Uprooted Tree Helped Kerala Farmer Earn Up to Rs 4 Lakh From Fish & Veggie...
Back in 2012, when Palakkad-native Vijayakumar Narayanan returned from Muscat after toiling in various jobs for 20 years, he was unsure of what to do next. He could always farm at his ancestral house...
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LLb Grad Grows & Supplies Organic Veggies to Kerala’s Supermarts, Earns Rs 40...
While studying in college, Alappuzha native Nishad VR put together a mushroom farm in his house and the produce was sold at his college store. Nishad and his siblings used to make decent pocket money...
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Homemaker Upcycles Junk Bikes, Bulbs, Basins to Create Fairytale Garden in UP
Till 2013, Ghaziabad resident Ruchi Goel had never tried her hands at growing even a single plant, even though her mother nurtured a charming garden in their home when she was growing up. “Even my...
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Ponds, Tropical Plants in Heart of Kerala: Businessman Turns Quarry into...
Businessman Musthafa Parammel Ambadi grew up in a traditional Kerala house surrounded by trees, streams and a pond. Over the years, his native place in a village in Malappuram saw many changes — new...
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Mangaluru Couple’s Simple Innovation Automatically Waters Plants While You’re...
“Most urban households struggle to maintain a garden around their house or even look after a few plants in their own balcony,” says Santosh Shet, who has more than a decade of experience in the IT...
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Okra Chips to Chikoo Candies: Mom-Daughter Help Farmers Earn With Dehydrated...
Back in 2017, Keerthi Priya from Hyderabad was working in Bengaluru. While she was juggling her corporate job responsibilities, living away from home came with its own challenges. She would often miss...
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Self-Made Punjab Agripreneur Supplies Corn to Multinationals; Earns Rs 7 Cr...
Hailing from Batala in Punjab, Jagmohan Singh Nagi had a keen interest in agriculture and the food business from a young age. His father used to do flour mill repair work and wanted his son to work in...
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Mechanic Builds Award-Winning Machine to Cultivate Fields, Cut Labour Costs...
The ancestral land on which Kadavendi Mahipal Chary grew up reaped good harvest, but not enough income, he recalls. His father would have to spend a large chunk of their earnings on labourers to...
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2 Lakh Farmers, 28000 Tonnes Produced: Professor Helps Spur Bihar’s Mushroom...
For Rekha Kumari, a homemaker and mother of two from Bihar’s Hathua town, stepping into farming and starting an entrepreneurial journey was life-changing. For years, her hands had been full with...
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Bihar Woman Quits Govt Job to Launch ‘Online Garden’ on YouTube, Earns Rs 1...
Growing up in a plant loving home in Bihar, Reshma Ranjan never had a dull day. She would spend her days listening to her grandmother share her knowledge about different crops, flowers, and plants....
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How I Grow Microgreens in My Room & Earn Rs 3 Lakh/Month: Kerala Man Shares Tips
Packed with nutrients, microgreens are often termed as a superfood. These are seedlings of vegetables or herbs in their initial stages of growth, and are in fact more nutritious than a fully grown...
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How to Grow Garlic in Old Plastic Containers? Dehradun Gardener Shares Easy...
As someone who spent more than 23 years in the densely populated city of Mumbai, Milan Kumar never really had the chance to stay in an apartment that had ample space to carry out gardening. “Even...
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Biology Prof Expanded Father’s Garden into One of Northeast India’s Biggest...
In 1984, a school principal from Dhupguri, Assam started a hobby of setting up a garden. Gopinath Sharma, the gardener, was not just doing this for himself. Rather, whenever people visited him and...
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Kerala’s 72-YO ‘Guardian of Native Paddy’ has Saved 54 Rice Varieties in 20...
Cheruvayal Raman (72), popularly known as the ‘Guardian of Native Paddy’, has managed to save 54 native varieties of rice in 20 years. Born in the Adivasi community of Kurichiyas in Wayanad, Raman...
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How Did Pathankot Farmers Record Just 1 Farm Fire? Agri Officer Behind the...
This article has been sponsored by Wingify Earth. This year, the district of Pathankot in Punjab recorded one farm fire. This was even when the state has been widely regarded over the years as among...
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How This IAS Officer’s Initiative Reduced Stubble Burning in Ambala by Over 80%
This article has been sponsored by Wingify Earth. The winter season in Delhi once welcomed as a relief from its burning summers, now only brings in the terror of smog and pollution. The rise in toxins...
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IIT Delhi Grad’s Startup Helps 20,000+ Farmers Sell Fresh Produce, Earn 35%...
Varun Khurana, a computer science graduate from IIT-Delhi, is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the grocery delivery business. From serving as chief technology officer at Grofers (now...
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School Dropout Farmer’s Innovation To Protect His Crops From Insects Wins Rs...
This article has been sponsored by Infosys Foundation. In the tiny village of Jigali in Karnataka’s Davanagere district, a young boy had just finished his Class 10. He was, in fact, the first in his...
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’We Turn ‘Spoilt’ Crop Into Profits’: Startup Helps Women Farmers Become...
While India is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, more than 40 percent of the produce is wasted because of a fragmented and unorganised supply chain. It costs the...
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Pune Software Engineer Uses Hydroponics to Grow Saffron In Shipping Container
History has been witness that India’s spices are worth wars. A special spice that the country has to offer is saffron, or ‘Red Gold’, which originates from the flower of Crocus sativus. While the...
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After Severe Losses, How I Built an Organic Herbal Farming Biz That Earns Rs...
“You’ve lost your mind”, “It would be a failure”, and “You’ll lose all your money” — these were the words thrown at Rakesh Chowdhary (40) when he told his friends and family that he wants to do...
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‘No Longer a Victim’: Farming Helped Me Earn, Rebuild Life After Abusive...
Hailing from Kacheri Gaon, a small hamlet in the Jajpur district of Odisha, Jhunbala Malick was born into a family of labourers. Her mother had to undergo surgery, so Jhunbala had to compromise her...
View ArticleWatch How Pune Engineer Uses Hydroponics to Grow Saffron in Shipping Containers
Software engineer Shailesh Modak from Pune came up with a unique business idea that couples hydroponics and a love for nature. Though well-settled in the corporate world, Shailesh was intent on doing...
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MBA Grad Bottles Ladakh’s ‘Miracle’ Sea Buckthorn in Juices, Jams; Earns Rs...
The year was 2016. Thinles Singhey, a 35-year-old resident of Ladakh, who was pursuing his MBA in Human Resource Management from the Central University of Jammu at the time, was back home for the...
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Remembering ‘Millet Man’ Whose Revolution Gave Livelihoods to Thousands of...
In a major loss for Indian civil society, Periyapatna Venkatasubbaiah Satheesh, the ‘Millet Man of Telangana’, founder and executive director of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), passed away in...
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Brother-Sister Duo Are Using Drones to Help Farmers Triple Their Income
Kerala’s Devika and Devan Chandrasekharan are transforming agricultural practices using drones. This innovation helps farmers produce up to 35 percent more yield. With a mission to boost farm yield,...
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Engineer Uses Zero-Waste Farming to Make Products With All Parts of Coconuts,...
A common sight in most South Indian states are coconut trees, which not only make the environment cleaner, but also provide us with fibrous fruit. And in turn, these fruits have a host of benefits —...
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‘I Was Offered Rs 5 Lakh for a Tree’: Ex-Marine Engineer Grows 200 Bonsai...
Lenus Xavier (59), a retired marine engineer from Kochi, has been nurturing his passion for gardening since childhood. When Lenus was 15, he discovered bonsais and was immediately fascinated. Later,...
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19-YO’s Tech ‘Mimics Nature’ to Keep Fruits, Veggies Fresh Without Refrigeration
Growing up in Chennai near a small farmland, Mahek Parvez would often witness that while the fields bloomed with produce, a majority of the fruits and vegetables would rot before they could ever make...
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Engineer Turns His Home into a Hub of Over 500 Rare Medicinal Plants
A systems architect by profession, Kerala’s Ezekiel picked up collecting herbs as a hobby nearly 15 years ago. He calls himself a “collector of herbs”. His 4-acre farm in Chottanikkara has both...
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Our ‘Greenhouse-in-a-Box’ Saves 98% Water, Doubles Farmer Incomes
Climate change and its adverse effects haven’t spared anyone, least of all the farmers in rural India, who witness losses every year due to drought, heat, rain and pest attacks. When Sathya Raghu...
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How to Grow Apples in Hot Climate? Award-Winning Farmers Reap Success With...
“Ever since people have come to know that apples are growing on my farm, I have had a stream of visitors,” says Kakasaheb Sawant of Antral village in Sangli’s (Maharashtra) Jath taluka, proudly...
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Soil Testing in 5 Minutes: 2 Scientists Innovate Paper-Based Device To Help...
In order to determine what fertilisers the soil needs, farmers conduct soil testing, which usually takes about 15 days to complete and get the results. “By the time they get the results, farmers have...
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Friends’ Zero-Commission Online Market Helps Farmers Double Their Income...
Maharashtra’s Sachin Gore grows sugarcane and turmeric in his 3.5-acre farmland but was always dependent on middlemen to sell his produce. “I used to sell products to middlemen at a commission of 30...
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Discover the Padma Shri Hero who sparked Uttarakhand’s Pomegranate Revolution
It may now seem like a common sight to find pomegranate and apple orchards while visiting Hatal and its neighbouring villages in the northern state of Uttarakhand. However, about two decades ago,...
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Less Water, Higher Yield: Why PAU Prof’s Patented Hydroponics Tech Could be a...
The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) was recently in the news for developing and patenting the first indigenous Hybrid Hydroponic Technology (HHT) developed by Dr V P Sethi, the head of the...
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‘Toured Across India To Learn From Farmers’: How a Retd Colonel Found Passion...
Colonel Sujan Mohanty (57), is a retired army man who set out to create a successful life for himself post his service of 22 years. A civil engineer as well, he now cultivates and manages an orchid...
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Started in Dad’s Memory, Assam Farmer’s ‘Rice Library’ Saves Over 500...
If you ask children and teenagers the question, ‘Where does your food come from?’ They’ll probably answer, ‘the kitchen’ or ‘the grocery store’. Mahan Chandra Borah, a 41-year-old rice farmer, was...
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Building Scale With Zero Middlemen: How Small-Scale Farmers In Bihar Double...
This article is sponsored by Bayer The year 2018 marked a watershed moment for Bhagalpur district in Bihar. Katarni rice, a short-grained variety, known for its unique taste and aroma, along with the...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Plants Winter-Ready? 4 Easy Steps By a Gardening Expert
It’s finally that time of the year when the nip in the air cannot be ignored anymore. Winter is soon going to be here in all its glory. But while there’s a lot to look forward to — the festive season,...
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Entrepreneur Turns 500 Tonnes of Waste into ‘Black Gold’, Earns Turnover of...
Sana Khan from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, earns Rs 1 crore by making vermicompost (enriched compost made with the use of earthworms). She says she had always wanted to be a doctor, but failed to clear the...
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When Droughts Led to Losses, Oyster Pearl Farming Helped Marathwada Farmers...
With uncertain rainfall patterns and irrigation canals completely drying up, cultivation in the parched land of the Osmanabad district has become exhausting for farmers. Lying under the rain shadow...
View Article63-YO Earns Rs 1 Lakh/Month With His Banana Empire, Distributes 500 Varieties...
Did you know that there are over 1,000 different varieties of bananas worldwide? While only 10 to 15 types of bananas are grown commercially in India, a farmer in Kerala has cultivated an impressive...
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Black Potatoes? Meet the Man Taking Black Super Crops to 15 States
Ravi Prakash Maurya, 40, has become a ‘black potato champion’ of sorts. A journalist by profession, Maurya has been growing the vegetable for five years now and promoting it among other farmers spread...
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