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Nagpur Man Quits Job To Revive Ancestral Land, Now Saves 2 Cr Litres of Water...
In 2016, when Anirudh Chaoji (54) first returned to his ancestral farm in Nagpur’s Mangli’s village, he was shocked by its deteriorating condition. He saw 6 acres of degrading forest, and a barren land...
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Organic, Scientific Farming Helps Rajasthan Farmer Earn Rs 4 Lakh/Month, Save...
Shankar Jaat from Salera village Rajasthan is a traditional farmer, growing tomato, beans and wheat on his 1.25-acre land. However, the 45-year-old marginal farmer never earned more than Rs 60,000 a...
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UP Farmer Grows Strawberries in Half Acre Land, Earns Rs 1.5 Lakh Profit
For Sewaram, a farmer from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, ensuring his four-member family’s survival, with never more than Rs 10,000 a month, was turning out to be increasingly challenging. He was a...
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UP Brothers Turn 200 Quintals Of Cattle Waste Into Vermicompost, Earn Rs 20...
Traditionally, villagers of Sikhar in Uttar Pradesh had relied on cow dung and other organic material including wood to use as fuel for cooking. However, when the Central government announced the...
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Hyderabad Man Helps 45000 Farmers Turn To Organic Farming, Increase Income By...
In 1988, Raj Seelam, an agriculture graduate from Hyderabad, joined a chemical fertiliser and pesticide manufacturing company. Over the next 12 years, he worked closely with farmers, guiding them with...
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Bihar Man Controls Fully-Automated 200-Acre Farm Online, Grows 28000 Fruit Trees
Every day, Sudhanshu Kumar drives down to his farm, parks his bike in the shed, and sits in a control room built on the premises. He makes himself comfortable, and picks a movie to watch for the day....
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Thrissur Man Grows Banana Tree On His Terrace, With Fish Water & Waste
Four years ago, John Varghese (30), a resident of Thrissur in Kerala, began growing a few plants, including tomatoes and brinjal, on his home’s terrace. He wanted to reduce his dependence on vegetables...
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Bengaluru Man Grows Urban Jungle of 1700 Trees on Terrace, Doesn’t Need Fans...
In the early summer of 2010, Nataraja Upadhya was feeling the need to set up a water cooler to deal with the impending heat. As he geared up for temperatures to soar in Bengaluru, where he lives, he...
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11 Maharashtra Farmers Turn Lockdown Into New Business Opportunity, Earn Rs 6...
The sudden COVID-19 lockdown announced in March 2020 left everyone stranded, put life at a pause and disrupted routine business. The situation of farmers in Ahmednagar of Maharashtra was no different....
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Maharashtra Grape Farmer’s Accidental Discovery Earns Him Rs 125 a Kilo!
On an afternoon in 2013, Vijay Desai, a grape farmer from Sangli in Maharashtra, was strolling through his vineyard. It was a routine check to monitor the health and growth of his produce. But...
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Scientist Helps 50000 Farmers Switch To ‘Madagascar Method’, Increase Yield...
In Madhya Pradesh’s Shahpur Khurd village, Kavita Singh is busy cutting her freshly harvested sikiya variety of rice, which stands tall at 1.5 metres on her three-acre field. Judging from the...
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Telangana Engineer 1st In State To Win ICAR Award, Grows 26 Types of Organic...
In 2014, a relative of software professional Mavuram Mallikarjun Reddy passed away from cancer, which had been detected a few years earlier. What was shocking, Mallikarjun recalls, was that none of the...
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She Quit City Life For An Organic Farm In Uttarakhand That Saves 2 Lakh...
To escape a hectic city life, full of woes and stress, and relocate to a quiet abode in the hills might very well be every urban dweller’s dream today. But how do you shift to an organic way of life in...
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Chennai Teacher Makes Homemade Fertilizers From Kitchen Waste, Grows Over 400...
Amidst the hustle and bustle in one of Chennai’s busiest streets, Chrompet, 51-year-old S Sathyanarayanan has created a green paradise on his 1,200 sq ft terrace. He grows 400 plants including...
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Engineer’s Bio-Organic Fertilizers Yield 20% More Produce At Rs 65/Litre,...
Around 2012-13, Dr Salim Channiwala, an engineer who worked as a director at Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of Technology in Surat, was left deeply impacted when he lost four relatives to cancer....
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Odisha Organic Farmer Earns Rs 18 Lakh/Year, Buy 10 Acres of Farmland With...
Odisha-based Krushna Nag has always held affection for nature in his heart, he says. He began working as a driver of light and heavy vehicles in 1996, but alongside his work, he’d spend hours admiring...
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How to Grow Mango Trees at Home in Just 6 Easy Steps
As a child, I fancied having a huge garden to myself and despite several attempts, I faced tough luck in growing mango plants at home. After extracting the juicy pulp, for years we have been discarding...
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Rajasthan Startup’s Innovative Polymer Made of Fruit Peels Helps Farmers Save...
Growing up in Boraj, a small village in Rajsamand district, Rajasthan, Narayan Lal Gurjar and Puran Singh Rajput had watched their families struggle with water scarcity while farming their entire...
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Retired Andhra Banker Solves His Village’s Water Crisis, Transforms 800 Acres...
In 2018, S Venkateswara Reddy from Hyderabad retired as a banker from the State Bank of India. As he relieved himself from the first innings of life, he planned to try his second stint with farming....
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1000s of Farmers Visit This 22-YO’s YouTube Channel For Knowledge & Inspiration
Ganesh Fartade, a 22-year-old from Gevrai village in Beed, farms on his 8-acre land. His village falls in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, which is a perennially drought-affected area. It is also a...
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