Agriculture

It is 300 times sweeter than sugar, high on nutritional value, and low on calories. The natural compound in the fruit also does not increase blood pressure.

A student of MES College in the Cherupulassery town of Palakkad district, Shahinsha belongs to an agrarian family from the Panamanna village.

Did you know that cotton accounts half of all pesticide use in India? And that inhaling this poisonous spray can lead to farmers losing their vision, hearing or speech, and even die?

Rohit Patel, a 21-year-old onion farmer and innovator from Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh, has found a way to store his harvest for a few months and earn ten times the profit!

Khunti district in Jharkhand has been infamous for illegal poppy farming for a long time with dealers luring the villagers to cultivate opium, offering them huge amounts of money.

“How many of us know where our food comes from? At a time where everything we pick from the grocery store is laden with pesticides, growing our own food can help cut down health risks and also ensure our children get their food in its freshest form.”

Innovation is a term which is rarely associated with vegetables, fruits or spices. Interestingly, there are scores of unlettered farmers who have been ingenious enough to develop crop varieties, which besides being high-yielding, are pest-resistant and can be grown in a non-traditional environment.

The underground reservoir can hold 40 million litres of water and can supply for as long as seven months.

The gel deactivates certain chemicals, preventing them from going deep into the skin and organs like the brain and the lungs.

Aarnav is only 17, but his work in the last three years has been instrumental in saving hundreds of farmers from losing hope in the Vidarbha belt after they suffered crop failures.