Kerala

Kandal Rajan from Kannur, Kerala, has been conserving the mangrove belt on the Pazhayandi River for over four decades. He also owns a small mangrove nursery with 5,000 saplings at home.

Kerala-based Devika and Devan Chandrasekharan launched Fuselage Innovations, an agritech startup that uses drones to spray fertilisers on farms.

Balakrishnan E from Kozhikode has a collection of over 500 species of cacti on his terrace. He collects the varieties from different parts of the country as well as from Japan, China, Indonesia, Brazil and so on.

Dr Arya Gopi and Joby Joseph from Kerala built their sustainable home using very little concrete and walls that needed no plastering.

Kerala-based Gopalakrishnan KR, a retired bank employee, used his retirement benefits to convert a 1-acre rubber plantation into a mini forest with hundreds of fruit trees, medicinal plants, and more.

Sugandhadevi, a terrace farmer from Kerala, has been growing paddy on her terrace for the last decade. She was recently awarded the ‘best woman farmer’ title in her panchayat.

Rejimon Thankachan from Kollam in Kerala, uses 22 different varieties of grains to make sugar-free but sweet oats under his brand Glorys Foods.

Known as the Tuber Man of Kerala, Shaji NM from Wayanad grows over 200+ varieties of tubers and has distributed seeds to over 12000 farmers across the state.

Raphi Ramanath, a biology teacher at Vignjana Vilasini Higher Secondary School (VVHSS) in Kerala, has set up a herbal garden with 150 plants and a Miyawaki forest with over 450 trees on campus.

Ramitha Dinu and Dinu Thankan employed biofloc technology in farming Tilapia fish and have sold more than 600 kg within six months.