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Retd Mysuru Techie Spends Lakhs to Create 14,000 Acre Organic Garden For All!
For Harish Mysore, it is all about making choices that benefit not just the self, but everyone around. And that’s one of the reasons why this 67-year-old moved cities from Bengaluru to Mysuru. Source:...
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Online Keerai to WhatsApp Marketing: 3 Technovations Building Farms of the...
This article is part of a series by experts in support of the ATL Tinkering Innovation Marathon – organised by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and The Better India. Read more about the marathon...
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Woman Challenges Conventional Norms of Work, Quits US Job to Build Organic Farm!
It is not easy to leave a well-paying profession and start something of your own, but ten years ago, Gaytri Bhatia, an environmental analyst with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in...
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This Monsoon, Try Your Hand at Indoor Farming & Grow These 5 Veggies at Home!
Monsoons are all set to make an entry and if you think any of your gardening plans are going to be dampened, fret not! Of course, gardening in the backyard might not be a feasible idea, but hey, this...
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Tracing Uttarakhand’s Ancient Tradition of Making Flavoured Pahadi Salts by...
One of the oldest and most effective advice of all is to take everything with a pinch of salt. This tip might work well in life, but when it comes to food, you need the perfect amount, and not too less...
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Bengaluru Man’s Venture Lets You Rent a Farm for Rs 2/Sq Ft & Grow Your Own...
Over the past few months, I have been closely following the stories of farmers and people who gave up their city jobs to take up farming. Each story inspires me as it revolves around the narrative of...
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50K+ Assam Kids Grow Organic Veggies In School Backyards, Earn Neat Profits!
Being forced to eat and appreciate vegetables, especially the dreaded Karela (bitter gourd), is an extremely painful memory from my childhood. My grandmother would come up with myriad ways of...
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Taking Up Organic Farming at 13, Kerala Student Now Grows 50+ Fruits & Veggies!
Sooraj CS remembers how his mother would pick tomatoes and chillies from their kitchen garden, wash off the soil and use them to make delicious curry. As a child, he took up small tasks to help her in...
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IIM Topper Raises Crores Selling Veggies to Help 35000 Bihar Farmers!
When young Kaushlendra got an opportunity to study in a school in Nawada, Bihar, 50 kms away from his home in Mahammadpur, he did not know that his views of life were about to change. Though coming...
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Driverless Tractors & Diya ‘Guards’: How Low-Cost Innovations Can Transform...
This article is part of a series by experts in support of the ATL Tinkering Innovation Marathon – organised by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and The Better India. Read more about the marathon...
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Solution to Stubble Burning: Punjab Man Uses Straw to Make Fuel, Eco-Products!
Did you know that India produces more than 550 million tonnes of crop residue every year, and that the highest producers of this crop residue are Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana? Ever wonder what...
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Earth Walls to Organic Food: Gujarat Couple Quits US Job to Create Food Forest!
In April 2016, at the peak of his career in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco-based Vivek Shah decided to quit his job and return to India with his wife Brinda who holds a Masters in Printmaking. Why?...
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1420 Varieties, 25 Years: Meet the Man Rescuing India’s Rice Diversity From...
In the 1990s when Debal Deb was working with India’s largest conservation NGO in Kolkata, he recalled how the country boasted of more than 1,10,000 folk or native varieties of rice until the advent of...
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74-YO Ex-IPS Officer Turns Organic Farmer, Grows Paddy & Shrimp in Kerala!
‘If you protect the nation, the nation will protect you’, is the philosophy that P K Hormis Tharakan has lived his life by. Tharakan, a former Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) has played...
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Can a Tree Grow with Just 1 Litre of Water? This 68-YO Farmer Has Grown 50,000!
If I were to tell you that only one litre of water is needed to grow a tree, you would possibly react in three different ways—assume I have gone berserk, wonder if I am watering the tree secretly, and...
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DRDO Is Helping Ladakh Farmers Grow Watermelons, Tomatoes In a Cold Desert!
It’s safe to say that climate conditions in Ladakh, a cold desert, are not exactly suited for growing warm-weather crops like tomato, capsicum, muskmelon and watermelon. Characterised by a rugged...
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Mom’s Cancer Makes Farmer Go Organic; Grows Chemical-Free Food & Saves 60% Water
Ravdeep Singh was raised on a farm in the village of Farwahi, a stone’s throw from Barnala in Punjab. Although his parents worked in different professions, they were always connected with the soil and...
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Engineering Dropout to Organic Farmer Growing 300+ Native Veggies: TN Man’s...
In the village of Kuttiyagoundanpudur, close to the arid region of Oddanchatram in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district, lies Aadhiyagai Parameswaran’s six-acre farm. Want to grow your own food? Here are...
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No Degree, But This Rajasthan Man’s Innovations Help 100s of Farmers
This article has been sponsored by Exxon Mobil In a small village called Surera in Sikar District, almost 85 kilometres away from Jaipur, lives a simple farmer who found his calling in mechanical...
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50% Cheaper & 100% Green: 22-YO Invents Solar Dryer To Help Boost Farmer Incomes
As per a study done by the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, 16 per cent of India’s food produce (fruits and vegetables) gets wasted every year. Insufficient storage...
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