Agriculture

From the Gulmohar in Khalil Jibran’s poem to the Chestnut tree in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, Koya has managed to create a museum of trees from the world of literature

Amrita and Sanmitra harvest rare and exotic varieties of food like blue corn, purple carrots, yellow sweet potato, heirloom tomatoes, edible flowers, emerald-coloured kale and so on.

In a span of 6 years, 300 lorries loads of rock was removed from the land, with 5 acres set aside for paddy and almost 20 varieties of fruits, pepper, cardamom and even coffee!

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“We get a pretty good harvest from these plants and distribute it to our neighbours for free and sometimes sell it at the market. It is a good source of income for us."

Alongside crops, the open jail is also home to livestock, with 50 cows, 50 goats, 20 buffaloes and a poultry farm which produces eggs worth Rs 6 lakh every year.

“It might have seemed like a crazy idea to many in the beginning but now they see the reality and the potential cultivating this has. I am glad I could be one of the few to bring that to light. After all it only takes one crazy idea to start a new wave of change,"

For the past nine years, the couple has been following a 5 AM -11 PM schedule, including running a YouTube channel with more than 64,000 subscribers.

His company, Sunshine Vegetables, is one of the largest producers of English carrots in India.

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