Organic Farming

A resident of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Anna Mani Ratnam grows 100 plants at home, including fruits like red guava and custard apple. From repurposing plastic containers as planters to composting and seed preparation, he shares some important gardening tips.

Hyderabad-based M S Raju's unique technique to turn Alkaline land fertile through changing pH levels has benefited many farmers in South India.

Ravi Nishad from Dhanbad quit his IT job to launch RPA Farming, a farmer producer company that has helped 400 farmers switch to organic farming

Swati Dwivedi (35), a resident of Bengaluru, who grows over 200 plants at home and runs the Backyard Gardening channel on YouTube shares how to grow organic beetroots at home in pots.

Parathasaradhi Nara launched Anantha Naturals, a farmer producer company that works with 150 farmers to sell toxin-free fruits, vegetables and other items across Bengaluru using natural farming methods

Ganesh Kulkarni, a librarian from Aurangabad, learned how to grow vegetables, flowers at home with the help of Facebook. He now guides other newcomers in urban gardening.

Organic farmers struggling to sell their harvest during the lockdown found their hero in Rinoob Bhaskaran from Kerala. His initiative ‘Support A Farmer’ helps them sell directly to consumers via Facebook and WhatsApp.

Hari Prakash, an urban gardener from Karnataka's Udupi, has been growing enough organic okra at home to serve the daily needs of his four-member family for the last 11 years

Jammu-based Rashpal Singh went from earning Rs 1,000 per harvest of wheat to now earning Rs 40,000 from organic strawberries.

Twenty farmers from Balagarh Block in West Bengal’s Hooghly district are growing a variety of watermelons using the poly mulching technique endorsed by the ATMA (Agriculture Technology Management Agency) scheme. This method saves water and improves the fertility of the land too.