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This Man Quit His 10-Year Banking Career to Create a Broker-Free Market for...
Prateek Sharma was born to a family of farmers in a village close to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He started farming at the age of 10 along with his family but moved to Bhopal after class 8 for higher...
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This Banker-Turned-Farmer Is Growing 70 Varieties of Herbs, Helping 22000...
Rajaram Tripathi could have kept his job as a banker, given the financially and politically unstable area he grew up in – Dantewada in the district of Bastar, Madhya Pradesh. The village was notorious...
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Amazing! With No Govt Help, Maharashtra Village Builds Own Water Pipeline
“Ask not what the country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F Kennedy. Kennedy probably didn’t realise that 40 years later a small Indian village called Poi in Maharashtra...
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How These Goans Decided to Go Organic, and Grew a Mini Forest in Their...
As you walk into the kitchen garden of Peter Fernandes and Rosie Harding in Assagao, Goa, you realise that it’s no less than a forest, where the land is covered with mulch and the 700 square meters of...
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Here’s How This Pune Woman Grew Her Own Food Organically and Fed Her Family...
An organic wave is sweeping through Pune, as people increasingly buy food grown without the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. However, Sujata Naphade is far ahead of this wave – she grows...
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Organic Milk at Your Door Step Now, Thanks to 9 Techies and a Veterinary Doctor!
India’s organised dairy sector’s growth is expected to rise as much as 25 percent by FY 2017-18. But it’s not all good news! According to the National Survey of Milk Adulteration 2011, as much as 70...
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Jackfruits and Grapes in a Pot? This Mangalore Man Has Been Doing it For Years!
When Blany D’souza told people that he was trying to grow jackfruits in a pot, they laughed at him. A year later, the same people were requesting him to help them do the same in their own gardens....
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Go Organic While Helping Abused and Abandoned Animals in This Himachal Farm
Pine-fresh mountain air, stunning views of the majestic Dhauladhar range and a laid-back little town brimming with warmth — just a few things that make Dharamshala so special. Nestled in the verdant...
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From Politics to Organic Farming, How One Incident Changed the Course of This...
Years of abuse from excessive usage of chemical fertilisers and pesticides not only leave the soil robbed out of its nutrients but also render it unfit for use. While synthetic fertiliser manufacturers...
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5 Innovative Ways for Farmers to Fight Pests Without Using Any Chemicals
No farmer is a stranger to the potential damage uninvited guests in their fields can cause to their crops. Yes, we are talking about pests which infest crops, reduce yields, lower agricultural...
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Bengaluru Techie Travels to Tamil Nadu Every Weekend, Just to Farm!
If you happen to look at the lush organic farm located in the foothills of Rangamalai in the village of Vellayampatti in Tamil Nadu, you will be unable to imagine what it looked like two years ago....
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Pune Woman Transforms 3,500 Sqft Plot Into Organic Garden That Feeds Three...
Pune-based Sujata Naphade was born with green fingers. She belongs to an agrarian family, and her mother-in-law is also a farmer. Her family advocates organic farming and growing up; she had always...
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Shafi Has Been Cultivating One of the World’s Most Expensive Spice for 50 Years!
Once upon a time, Mohammad Shafi would go to the saffron fields and collect five to ten kilograms of saffron from one Kanal of land. Now he raises just two kilograms. Kashmir is suffering from one the...
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This Young Rajasthani Trainer Left His Job to Fight Against Chemicals in Farming
It was in 2012 when Pawan Tak visited a hospital in Ajmer and came across a girl who had tried to commit suicide by drinking a harmful pesticide. This incident changed his entire course of life! “The...
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Which Are the Best Places in India to Grow Organic Crops? This Digital Map...
Government agencies under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have developed a geospatial digital map that will help identify regions with high potential for organic farming. Following...
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Software Engineer Quits Job to Bring Organic Jumbo Guavas to Our Homes
Neeraj Dhanda would have remained a software engineer all his life had he not visited the VNR nursery in Raipur, where he saw the ‘Jumbo’ guava for the first time. Neeraj was born in a farmer’s family...
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MBA Graduate Turns to Mushroom Farming, Makes Lakhs With Just a 18×45-Foot Shed!
How can farmers earn extra income in a limited space through organic means? Pragnesh Patel, an MBA graduate who became a farmer, has come up with a fantastic solution – mushrooms. His small 18 x...
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Using No Pesticides, This Lady Grows Over 34 Veggies & Fruits on Her Rooftop!
Even though fertilisers and pesticides have become prerequisites to grow crops, too much of anything is a vice, and the consumption of pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables on a daily basis has been...
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This Engineer Learnt Farming on YouTube and Grew Strawberries in Rajasthan!
Growing up, Deepak Nayak would often visit his family’s ancestral land in Rajasthan which was being managed by farm labourers as no one had no time to work on it. “Those few days spent on our farm were...
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Want to Grow and Eat Your Own Vegetables? Check out This Farming Kit
Imagine a scenario where you don’t have to visit a garden to buy vegetables. What’s better, you can choose to grow what you want to eat, in the comfort of your home. Archana Stalin and her husband...
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