Organic Farming

Farmers get fixed salaries every month and 10 per cent of the yield profits, thus making it a win-win model for all!

Apart from fetching him a profit of Rs 40000 per acre, Babulal's cultivation method has a capacity of saving 400 crore litres of water in monsoons!

“Customers even come from 20-30 km away,” says the band of women. Wondering why? Read this to find out. #FarmersFirst

"The parents of these children live in abject poverty. Most can't even provide one healthy meal to their kids. It's a great relief to them to see their child hale and hearty due to organic school food."

Their decision to return to native village from UK was dubbed as ‘foolish’ by many but the couple was firm in their resolution to reconnect with the roots.

"Every expert we met discouraged us to take up this mission. No one believed that we could revive such a wasteland through organic methods. But, we made the impossible eventually possible."

The students are also involved in waste management activities in the village - maintaining bamboo waste bins by the roadside.

Now growing a 118 rare varieties of rice, Jayakrishnan, along with his friend Leneesh, also sells organic ‘superfoods’, made from their fresh farm produce.

A few months ago, he also grew a 7-foot-long yam that roughly weighed a hundred kilograms!

"All of these are pet-friendly as well as pose no chance of allergy to the plant parents!" #LiveGreen