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In Just 5 Years, Kerala Woman Gets Entire Village to Grow Their Own Vegetables!
Twenty years ago, if someone would have told Seenat Kokkur that she would one day be an expert agriculturist and transform the lives of many women, she wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s precisely...
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Saudi’s Sands to Kerala’s Hills, This Organic Farmer Can Grow Profits Anywhere!
With over half the area of Saudi Arabia being deserts, the possibility of practising agriculture there is very minimal. But for 15 long years, Hameed A, a farmer from Kerala, has been growing all kinds...
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Award-Winning TN Farmer Helps Hundreds Go Organic, Earns Huge Profits!
Organic farming is often perceived as a fairly novel concept, gaining prominence only in the past few years with the widespread rise in awareness among Indian farmers. But SR Sundararaman, a farmer...
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27-YO Lawyer Quits it All to Help 2000+ Bihar Farmers Succeed Via Agroforestry
If the lockdown has taught us anything, it is the realisation that we take food for granted. Not all of us are urban farmers or have kitchen gardens and instead are solely dependent on the market...
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From Rare Fruits To Cows & Fish, Kerala Duo’s 18 Acre Farmland Is A...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. Also known as the...
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After 20 Years of Work, 55-YO Farmer Develops Grape Variety With 40% Higher...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. More than 20...
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People Helped This Farmer Sell His Produce Amid Lockdown In the Most...
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. With the lockdown in...
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Why Are Deadly Locusts Swarming India? An Expert Reveals The Answer
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. After leaving a...
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Can Centre’s Agriculture Reforms Positively Impact Farmers? Experts Have...
On 15 May 2020, the Central government announced major reforms that could completely reconfigure the agriculture sector in India as we know it. According to finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, these...
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3 Entities Share The Private Sector Ideas That Can Transform India’s Farmers
The Central government’s recent announcement about introducing long-standing reforms in the agriculture sector has definitely created a buzz. In an earlier article on agriculture reforms, we...
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Here’s How Experts Believe We Can Make India’s Farmers Worry-Free
In the past two instalments of our series on agriculture in India, we have looked at the possible impact of the Central government’s agriculture sector reform announcement on 15 May, which seeks to...
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Student Brings Quinoa To Ladakh, Can Help Farmers Earn up to Rs 1000 Per Kg
About four years ago, a conversation with his cousin sister, left Tsewang Nurbu, a resident of Leh, baffled. She had asked him if he knew about quinoa, an ancient plant from the amaranth family,...
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Disabled Man Quits Job To Turn Mushroom Farmer, Earns Profit & Awards
In 2013, J Ramakrishna, a resident of Mandya, Karnataka, quit his job as a computer operator in the Primary Education Department of Karnataka, and decided to become a farmer. However, he wanted to do...
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Mysuru Woman Grows 100+ Crops Using Different Organic Fertilisers, Earns Lakhs
I remember the first time I tried to grow something. Sitting on the floor with a newspaper laid out, on top of which lay fresh soil. Touching the moist soil with my bare hands was therapeutic, calming...
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MP Farmer Grows ‘Soil-less’ Strawberries In 3,000 Sq Ft, Profits Rise By 70%
Life took a new turn for Ratlam-based farmer, Arvind Dhakad, in 2015 after a visit to Israel through a private agro-tour comprising farmers. He was stunned to see native farmers growing traditional...
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One Man’s Effort is Helping Farmers of 3 States Sell Organic Veggies to 3,800...
“The entire goal of the ‘Thakkali’ shop was to ensure that everyone could access chemical-free, locally-sourced organic veggies. Many vegetable stores have popped up in recent years with the ‘organic’...
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In 4 Years, Kerala Village Turns 100 Acres of Barren Land into Lush Organic Farm
Nedumangad, a village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, with a population of just about 60,000 people, is famous for its suburban beauty and its 16th-century Koyikkal Palace. But take a closer look, and...
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Once Rejected For a Job When he Didn’t pay Bribe, Farmer Now Earns in...
Satish Shidagoudar, a 38-year-old farmer from Belagavi’s Shirur village, is popularly known as the ‘bitter gourd specialist’ in that region because he harvests 50 tonnes of the vegetable every year on...
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Rajasthan Man’s Zero-Budget Terrace Garden Helps Him Save Rs 4,000/Month!
I do not have any farmland or a garden, how do I grow my own food? This question bothered Ajay Sharma, a medical officer in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, after learning about how vegetables are grown...
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Here’s How This Meerut Dentist is Growing Watermelons In Cloth Bags On Her...
A couple of years ago, people did not believe Dr Shivani Kalra, a dental surgeon from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, when she said she wanted to grow watermelons in containers on her terrace that measures...
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