Agriculture

Babita Bhatt, a former software professional, quit her job to move to Dehradun and start Himalaya2Home, a direct partnership channel that works with organic farmers in the area to help them sell their produce.

Ganesh Fartade, a student of journalism and farmer from Beed, Maharashtra, runs 'Royal Shetkari', a YouTube channel that aims to equip the farming community with knowledge and inspiration on how to handle various issues

Retired banker S Venkateswara Reddy from Hyderabad has helped 30 farmers in his drought-hit ancestral village grow brinjal, onion, guava, okra, cotton, groundnut and more

EF Polymer is a Rajasthan-based agri-tech startup that has created the Fasal Amrit, an organic super absorbant polymer made of bio waste generated at juice shops.

Seven years ago, Jayanti Vaidyanathan (65), a resident of Chennai began growing plants on her terrace to eat healthy and to get some sunlight. Today, she grows over 250 plants, which includes a variety of vegetables, fruits, flowering and medicinal plants.

What started as a curiosity to grow plants during her childhood, has turned into an active hobby with encouragement from family and friends for Hyderabad-based Naina Sarda. She details how the often discarded mango seed has been used as a mouth freshener and also for high blood pressure patients while narrating a step-by-step guide on growing mango saplings at home.

Krushna Nag from Odisha grows season vegetables and fruits such as mangoes, pomegranates, and bananas using a variety of organic methods

Dr Salim Channiwala, a mechanical engineer and former director at Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of Technology in Surat, has developed a bio-organic liquid fertilizer made from slurry and 16 micronutrients.

S Sathyanarayanan is a French teacher in Chennai's Anna Gem Science Park School, and took up terrace gardening as a hobby in 2015. Today, he grows over 400 plants on his terrace and balcony, and cares for them with a wide variety of homemade fertilizers using waste.

Amrita Chengappa moved to a small village in Uttarakhand in 2002 in search of a simpler life. With her partner, she runs SOS Organics that sells all-natural soaps, candles, home care items, teas, seasonings and cold pressed oils, all made with indigenous produce.