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Sailing to Farming: Himachal Man Leaves Rs 2.5L/Month to Grow Chemical-Free Food
Sailing on unpredictable seas and working 24×7, Pankaj Pathak earned a lucrative monthly pay package of Rs 2.5 lakh. Yes, the money was flowing in. From 2002 until 2013, the merchant navy officer’s...
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Organic: 2 Close Calls Turn Man To Natural...
Gummalla Venkata Krishna Bapineedu recalls the day when he escaped the jaws of death in the nick of time. “11 years ago, when I was working in the field, a snake bit me. For more than an hour, the bite...
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Chennai Startup Gives You Fresh & Healthy Food, Helps 35000 Farmers Earn More!
Muniraj, 34, a farmer based in Hosur in Tamil Nadu, belongs to a family that has been farming for generations. Like farmers from across the country, Muniraj would spend exorbitant amounts of money on...
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Rs 50/Day to Rs 50 Lakh/Year: Incredible Story of a Jharkhand Farmer With...
“Our former president, APJ Abdul Kalam, said, [A] dream is not the thing you see in sleep but is that thing that doesn’t let you sleep. I, too had a dream of making my farm fertile, and it kept me up...
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Telangana Startup’s ‘Greenhouse-in-a-Box’ Saves Water, Doubles Farmer Incomes!
TH Prabhakar, 45, a farmer from Dacharam village in the Siddipet district in Telangana—where atleast 435 Mandals out of the total 584 are drought-hit—was facing a hard time due to the scarcity of water...
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Punjab Techie Quits High-Paying Job to Take up Natural Farming, Grows Organic...
As a kid, Rahul Sharma’s summer vacations were spent in Mustafabad, a tiny village in Kapurthala district, about three hours away from Chandigarh. Speaking to The Better India (TBI), Rahul says, “We...
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Delhi Engineer Turns Urban Kisan, Earns Rs 40K/Day From Organic Farming!
Walking around in a lush green field, dressed in sweatpants, a T-shirt and sneakers, Abhishek Dhamma from Delhi’s Palla village, hardly fits the typical image of a farmer. “People assume that lack of...
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Duo Converts Organic Waste Into 188 Tonnes of Compost for Rajasthan Farmers!
Rahib Kolsawala, 29, a farmer based in Dungarpur, Rajasthan, belongs to a family that has been farming for at least 30 years now. About 1.5 years ago, Rahib started practising organic farming and...
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Meet Delhi’s Aamir Ahmed, An Organic Farmer By Day & Salsa Teacher By Night
Between the two bordering cities of Delhi and Noida, Aamir Ahmed lives two lives. One in the posh clubs of Delhi, and the other, in a quiet village which does not even have a concrete road. In the...
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Delhiites, Learn How to Set up a Hydroponic Farm on Your Terrace in Just 1 Day!
While our awareness about the food that we consume—where it comes from, the way it was processed—is increasing, there is still a lack of sustainable and affordable solutions that ensure our food does...
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Yoga Teacher Quits Job, Grows Organic Food For Underprivileged Students!
At the crack of dawn, a group of children aged between six and twelve hurriedly make their way through the green fields in Guddad Hulikatti village of Karnataka’s Dharwad district to the hall where...
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Mumbai, Learn How to Grow Fresh Food Through Hydroponics in Just 1 Day!
How well do you know about the origins of those vegetables you cook daily? I bet not many would be able to answer this question with a resounding, ‘I do’. Finding chemical-free fruits and veggies in...
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Kerala Mom Runs Unique Aquaponics Farm In Backyard, Wins State Award!
Organic farming is the trend of the hour as many individuals across India are choosing to grow their food, instead of bagging the pesticide-laden, hybrid greens from supermarket shelves. However, Rekha...
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Kerala Woman’s Backyard Polyhouse Gives Her Organic Veggies & Rs 20000/Month!
Turning hard work into smart work, Vijaya Kala, a part-time farmer and a full-time tax-auditor is increasing her food output without toiling under the sun for hours or hopelessly waiting for the rains....
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Zero-Budget Natural Farming Doubles Gujarat Farmer’s Income In Just 6 Months!
Vanrajsinh Gohil was born in 1988 in the Junavadar village of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district and believes that his destiny was pre-decided. “I was born in a farmer’s family and that is what I was...
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How an Organic Farmer Doubled His Farm Output, Saved Rs 4 Lakh/Year!
Everyone has tried their hands at converting waste into something useful during the art and craft classes at school, (best out of waste, remember?). Reused ice-cream sticks turned to photo frames or...
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Here’s Why This Telangana Couple’s Organic Mangoes & Native Rice Is Making...
Bathed in the brilliant sunlight under the sky burnished blue, the 15-acre countryside farm belonging to Srikanth and Srilatha welcomes you with a tantalising aroma of ready-to-pluck mangoes. Nestled...
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Gujarat Mother Designs Low-Cost Kit That Lets You Grow Veggies For Just 299!
Avanee Jain calls herself an ‘accidental farmprenuer.’ “As a young girl, I would make innumerable trips to my grandfather’s farm in. I had no idea that these would materialise to something, years...
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Soil-less & Vertical, This Style of Farming Will Reduce Water Usage By 95%!
A silent but new revolution is taking place in the agricultural sector. In prehistoric days, especially in the Neolithic age, human beings started farming. Later, in the late 18th and early 19th...
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Eco-Friendly Recycling Method Helps IITian Increase Shrimp Production by 400%!
When IIT-Madras alumnus, Suryakumar Boriah moved back to India in the late eighties after working in the United States in the field of engineering, he wanted to work for a cause that he felt passionate...
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