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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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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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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 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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These Maharashtra Farmers Are Earning Lakhs By Growing a Desi Superfood!
Superfoods, organic cultivation, sustainable farming, and climate resilience may be familiar terms for us, but for farmers in Maharashtra, these are a way of life. They grow and market the superfood...
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Kerala Homemaker Grows Organic Food in Discarded Pipes, Old Washing Machine!
Maria Simi, a resident of Pottore, Thrissur, has devised an unusual way to grow vegetables while also repurposing the household plastic waste. She has started growing organic vegetables in discarded...
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25 Kg Cauliflowers, 3-Ft Brinjals & Padma Shri: This 72-YO Farmer is Truly...
Earlier this year, Jagdish Parikh, an organic farmer, was toiling under the sun, when he received a call from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, informing him that he had won the Padma Shri, India’s...
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Nashik Grape Farmer Saves 2 Crore Litres of Water Despite Droughts. Here’s How!
Last year, 10,000 farmers from Maharashtra’s Nashik district staged a protest demanding government intervention to mitigate their woes. The scanty and unseasonal rainfall coupled with depleting natural...
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Rajasthan Tractor Driver Turns Organic Farmer in The Thar Desert, Earns 50%...
It’s almost winter in India, and yet the daytime temperature continues to soar in the border village of Bajju in Rajasthan. Located in the arid Thar Desert, this little hamlet remains sparsely...
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No Seeds? No Problem: TN Farmer’s Innovation Can Help Transform Indian...
How do you grow a plant? What a silly question to ask, you may think. Step one is acquiring the seed of the selected species. That’s what our introductory science classes in school taught us, right?...
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How a Remote Bihar Village Ushered in an Organic Farming Revolution in Just 4...
That afternoon, old Mathura Yadav returned home all grimy and sweaty, but happy. Finally, the greens in his fields have attained that long-lost bright hue. Months worth of hard work had paid off. He...
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After Friend’s Son Gets Cancer, Mumbai Lady Grows Food Forest in 3×6 Ft Balcony!
Should everyone be growing their own food? This question struck Saraswati Kuwalekar, the Deputy Director, News (IIS) at Doordarshan on a visit to a hospital, where she was meeting her friend’s son. “He...
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