Agriculture

Founded by Shobhit Gupta, Noida startup Superplum tackles the problem of wastage in Indian agriculture with an innovative cold chain solution - the 'Fresherator'.

Fearing job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, Santosh Patil from Maharashtra launched Airball Enterprises to offer custom-made equipment to farmers near Kolhapur

Mohammed Moiez, an urban gardener and entrepreneur from Telangana, grows over 400 plants in planters made from recycled containers.

Nimble Growth, a Bengaluru-based startup, claims to have cultivated more than 150 tonnes of authentic organic produce a month and is engaged with farmers cultivating organic produce spread across 500 acres at Haveri, Gundlupet, rural Bengaluru and other areas of Karnataka.

Harivartha Prajeeth and Dr Mangayarkarasay Leela from Tamil Nadu practice the art of natural farming and have trained 500 others.

Earthen Tunes was launched in 2019 by three graduates of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad to design comfortable shoes for farmers using a desi wool.

Punjab-based AgNext Technologies, an ag-tech startup has developed an NIR-spectroscopy, AI and machine-learning enabled device to help catch milk adulteration early.

Kishore Indukuri quit his job at Intel in the US and returned to rural India to start Sid's Farm. Named after his son, the dairy farm in Hyderabad has scaled up its operations through word-of-mouth.

Mrinal and Lakshay Dabas from Jai Khor, Delhi, started Organic Acre to push for organic produce, which they believe is the next revolution in agriculture

The incredible story of how a team of scientists, government officials, village heads, NGOs and apricot farmers came together and eradicated the yellow-tail moth pest completely in barely two years.