Agriculture

Leading the pack is 35-year-old transgender woman Anju, who along with her friends, decided to break free from years of exploitation and injustice to lead lives on their terms.

Malnutrition, depleting groundwater & unstable incomes — thanks to Sheelu Francis, 30000 families are using millets to tackle all these three problems together!

No more oil, sticky hands and a messy affair — cutting unripe jackfruit just got easy, thanks to this man who quit his job and hired an expert to help farmers earn more! #FarmersFirst #Innovation #Karnataka

The couple started cutting the grafts from their trees for new saplings and started ‘Shekhawati Krishi farm and Nursery’ in 2013.

After working as a software developer for a year and a half, she left her job in 2017 and returned to take over farming once again.

Fondly known as Ramettan, Cheruvayal Raman has spent almost all his life cultivating paddy through organic practices, like the generations before him.

To understand the existing agricultural practices in Israeli farms, he travelled the length and breadth of Israel, right from the north of the sea of Galilee crossing the Dead Sea to the South for 10 days with his friend, Abner Chin. Pindoria came across several farms and kibbutz.

“It requires very less space to grow. In fact, if you start cultivating oyster mushrooms in a 2-litre soft drink bottle, it will give you a yield of about 0.5 kg in the first batch itself.”

Tests revealed a lung disorder, and the doctors told him that he would have to rely on using two oxygen cylinders a day.

Natura Farms, the brainchild of 30-year-old Navdeep Golecha, is an innovative farm with 12,500 Pomegranate, 7500 Papaya and 200 Lemon plants.