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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleBiology 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...
View ArticleKerala’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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleIIT 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...
View ArticleSchool 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...
View Article’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...
View ArticlePune 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...
View ArticleAfter 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleMBA 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...
View ArticleRemembering ‘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...
View ArticleBrother-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,...
View ArticleEngineer 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 —...
View Article‘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,...
View Article19-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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