Agriculture

Mocked for his decision to leave traditional farming and take up medicinal farming instead, Rajasthan-based Rakesh Chowdhary today runs Vinayak Herbal, an organic business that helps him earn crores every year.

Nashik resident Shailesh Modak quit his engineering job to take up hydroponics and grows saffron in shipping containers, earning lakhs.

Uttarakhand’s Nidhi Pant, along with her six college friends, launched an agri-tech startup to help women from low-income, climate-threatened communities sell produce dismissed as spoilt by converting farm losses to value-added products.

Karnataka farmer Karibasappa MG innovated a solar trap to keep insects away from him crops. He shares how this won him Infosys Foundation’s Aarohan Social Innovation Award and how life has changed since.

With the idea of helping small farmers who do not have large landholdings and enough resources to sell their fresh produce in mandis, IIT Delhi graduate Varun Khurana started a Delhi-NCR-region-based agritech startup called Otipy.

Former IAS officer of Ambala, Vikram Yadav, used unique methods to reduce stubble-burning incidents by approaching farmers with attractive waste management alternatives. After an 80% reduction in farm fires in 2021, a further dip was witnessed this year. Know more.

Even as Punjab reported 80% of all stubble-burning cases in North India, Pathankot district has zero farm fires this year. Chief Agricultural Officer Dr Amrik Singh, who was one of the two officers behind this feat, explains how.

Cheruvayal Raman was pained to see native rice varieties lose to hybrid seeds. So, he started cultivating native paddy and preserving their seeds. Watch his journey

Dhrubajyoti Sharma, head of the Department of Zoology at Dimoria College, Guwahati expanded his father Gopinath’s garden into one of Northeast India’s biggest nurseries with over 10,000 varieties of plants.

Want to grow garlic at home? Urban gardener Milan Kumar shares tips and a step-by-step process of how you can do this easily.