Farming

In Indian agriculture industry, mushroom farming has emerged as a lucrative business. Here are stories of five agriprenuers who quit their conventional jobs to grow mushrooms.

Anju Singh runs a YouTube channel called ‘Unique Farming’ to explore her interest in gardening. Using simple ingredients like buttermilk, cow dung and leaves, she prepares compost that shields plants from excessive heat.

Gardeners Mithilesh Kumar Singh and Sunita Prasad show how to grow vegetables even in small spaces. Here's how they innovate using PVC pipes to grow mini-gardens at home.

Looking for ways to resolve your pile of cardboard boxes at home? Kolkata woman shares tips on how to use them in your garden.

A chance visit to Manisha Gosain's land in Dehradun during the COVID-19 pandemic gave her and her sister, Namita Rawat Negi, the idea to convert it into the Doon Gooseberry Farm. They grow vegetables like tomatoes, brinjals, pumpkins, spinach, and more, and sell value-added products made from them.

Yash Dayal Sharma from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is on a mission to improve the soil health in Indian farms by creating vermicompost through his venture ‘Fertile Beeghas’.

For the past six years, Jaswinder Kaur and Ranjit Singh from Himachal have been using zero-budget natural farming to cultivate at least 25 kinds of crops. Here's how they made farming profitable and train others around them.

Does leaving your 9 to 5 job and moving to organic farming sound interesting? These stories will leave you motivated.

There are four critical farming operations -- weeding, drilling seeds, spraying fertiliser and laying manure -- all taken care of by 18-year-old Ramdhan Lodha's solar powered machine.

Donkey milk, which has little value in India, has made Dhiren Solanki a successful farmer in Gujarat. He tapped into its international demand in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, setting up a business within two years.