Agriculture

Teen farmer Banupriya and her father Dayatmaji, residents of Kerala, have grown a near-extinct and rare variety of red rice, which is said to have many medicinal benefits and has been used since ancient times.

M K Nishanth, a farmer from Wayanad, Kerala, was fascinated with growing different crops. Today, his backyard and ancestral farmland are filled with a plethora of plantain varieties.

Meet Saumik Das, who fell in love with bonsais as a young man, and has now turned this love into Grow Green Bonsai, a thriving nursery in Noida that sells these exotic mini trees, alongside succulents and penjing plants.

Avid home gardeners, Subhash Surti and his family’s home boasts of over 400 organic plant varieties such as seasonal vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and more. But the most unique part of this garden is a special potato that grows in vines rather than underground. Here’s how.

Sathyanarayana Beleri from Kasaragod, Kerala, grows and conserves 650 varieties of paddy in his 25 cents of land. He was recently honoured by the Union Ministry of Agriculture with the ‘Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Reward’ for his efforts.

Farmer Meena Pawar from Nashik showed indomitable spirit when her family was being crushed by financial hardships and debt. Here's how she used grape farming and sheer determination to help her family out of their crisis

Surendra Pal, an agriculturist from Punjab, started cultivating cotton in 2009. Today, along with growing his own vegetables, he makes cotton clothes, quilts and mattresses that even reach England.

With his unique farming method, Sujith Swami Nikarthil from Kerala has earned fame and profits from his vast sunflower field that has become a tourist hotspot.

Haryana-based Sumer Singh has been farming since 1999 but his switch to organic farming to grow vegetables, pulses, chickpeas and millets has been life-changing.

Started by Harjinder Kaur in 1989, Punjab-based Randhawa Mushroom Farm cultivates 12 varieties of the fungi. Mandeep, Manjeet and Harpreet Singh now continue the thriving business.