agriculture in india

Kerala’s Coonfresh earns Rs 50 lakh/year and has trained 10,000 farmers — all started by a homemaker and her husband with just 2 mushroom packets.

Ravi Prakash Maurya, a farmer in Uttar Pradesh is cultivating ‘black crops’ — rice, wheat, tomato, niger seeds, turmeric and potato — all with one thing in common, their colour and presence of antioxidants. Here's why he's promoting black potatoes across India.

When 26-year-old Harshit Godha didn’t find quality avocados in Bhopal, he decided to study all about the fruit’s farming in other countries and grow them in abundance in India.

Girish Badragond, a well-known rural innovator in Bijapur, Karnataka has launched a first-of-its-kind machine called ‘Blind Farming Technology.’

“Saffron cultivation is our culture and tradition. It’s been there for centuries, and it needs to be protected both the government and by people.”

Maharashtra farmer Chandrashekar Bhadsavle’s method, SRT (Saguna Rice Technique) farming avoids tilling completely and lets the residue of the earlier crop (in the rice crop’s case-- paddy stubble) disintegrate into the soil with the help of weedicides and microbial cultures.

This team introduced bee-keeping to improve agricultural productivity in India. The low-cost method has created some amazing on-ground impact, almost doubling the harvest in some cases. Here's how.