Agriculture

The company provides the farmers with the raw materials needed for agriculture, the procurement and processing of the produce along with marketing and branding.

“For survival, our people would literally scale mountains and carry several litres of water over their shoulders. But, things are changing for good now.”

“The pH level of the water you use for hydroponics farming is very important. The water needs to be slightly acidic (around pH 6.5), so I add a little bit of tamarind water to level it out.”

He grows banana, turmeric, sugarcane, guava, litchi, purple yam and traditional rice varieties in the Surat district.

Ganga Ram grows the cucumbers in his polyhouse using the soil solarisation technique.

Shriya Naheta, the founder of Zama Organics, has worked with 50,000 farmers from across India so far to source native grains, spicies, fruits and vegetables

“The way we are going, in the next 2 to 3 years, we will successfully be able to contribute 70 to 75 per cent of the total makhana production in the world.”

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A farmer from Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh has invented a new variety of apple that can be grown in plain, tropical, and sub-tropical weather.