Successful Careers

Sushant Uniyal and his brother built Uttarakhand’s largest oyster mushroom unit, producing 100 kg daily and creating jobs for the local community.

Pratibha Jha, an entrepreneur from Darbhanga, Bihar, turned a Rs 500 investment into a successful mushroom farming business. With a monthly turnover of Rs 2 lakh, she now trains over 10,000 farmers, empowering them with mushroom cultivation skills.

Anshul Mishra, a computer science graduate, returned to his roots in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to transform barren ancestral land into a thriving dragon fruit farm. Combining fresh fruit sales with a lucrative nursery business, he now generates impressive profits.

In 2019, Shivraj Nishad from Shekhpur village in Kanpur left his job to start a small-scale business cultivating, harvesting, and dehydrating local flowers such as butterfly pea, rose, hibiscus, marigold, tulsi, jasmine, and chamomile. Utilising solar dryers, he expanded his venture, employing over 100 farmers and offering 15 varieties of dried flowers.

Jagpal Singh Phogat, a teacher from Haryana, turned to beekeeping despite initial family scepticism. Overcoming early setbacks, he has empowered over 500 farmers to adopt beekeeping as a profitable, eco-friendly alternative to traditional farming.

After leaving her successful academic career behind, Trupti Dhakate embraced her passion for sustainable farming. By turning agricultural waste into valuable mushroom crops, she’s helping farmers grow nutritious food while tackling pollution.

After working for 11 years at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Jitender Mann moved back to his ancestral home in Haryana to embrace organic farming. Along with his wife Sarla, he embarked on a journey to promote the goodness of moringa and developed a profitable venture out of it.

Lohith Shetty, a farmer from Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka started growing exotic fruits like rambutan, dragonfruit, mangosteen on his family farm, earning handsome profits. Today, he runs a nursery too and teaches others how to grow these fruits.

When drumstick farming became unprofitable due to low market rates, Dr Kandasami Saravanan turned to harvesting the leaves instead. He launched a successful venture selling value-added products like moringa podi, leaf soup, and powder across the USA, Canada, Europe, and Gulf countries.

Over the past 30 years, Phuman Singh Kaurra from Punjab has been turning his family's fortunes around through carrot farming. He also has a seed bank that can cultivate up to 650 acres of land.