Agriculture

Of all his techniques, it was bamboo staking that brought his work to the limelight.

Satara's Popat Lokhande also collects waste from 12 companies and 27 restaurants. And the best part? He distributes the manure made from this waste to farmers for free!

It was the ‘Garden City’ of Bengaluru that inspired the Bhagalpur resident Raja Bose to tread this path a few decades ago.

Today, spread on a 2.5-acre plot lies a five-layered model economically-viable and sustainable farm, the fruit of Akash's labour.

Nearly a decade ago, Bhatia gave up a well-paying job as an environmental analyst with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Boston and traded her busy city life abroad to live at Vrindavan Farm.

It’s been more than two decades and he continues to grow chemical-free paddy. But that’s not the only reason the retired teacher-turned-organic farmer is famous.

From bananas that keep fungus at bay to mushrooms that grow on agri-waste, these women have been working for years to take care of your health, helping farmers and safeguarding the environment!

"The reasons why the farmers were resorting to suicide seemed like issues that could be addressed – some spoke of not having money to educate their children while for some it was the lack of money for their daughter's marriage."

From delivering fresh chemical-free greens to resorts and even at the doorsteps of customers in South Delhi and Gurugram, Red Otter Farms is one of India’s earliest and fastest-growing aquaponic farms.

The inspiration came from a few organic farmers that Kshitij and his wife, Neelam Kumari interacted with some years ago.