Agriculture

From delivering fresh chemical-free greens to resorts and even at the doorsteps of customers in South Delhi and Gurugram, Red Otter Farms is one of India’s earliest and fastest-growing aquaponic farms.

“As consumers, we are not often aware of our purchase decisions and their impact on farmers and workers down the production chain. If we were aware of the ground realities, then we would not take a decision knowingly to support exploitative production methods.”

Love for agriculture brought the destinies of Vani and Vijith together, and they decided to start their married life as an ode to that shared passion over a decade ago.

From solar-powered freezers for farmers to zero-electricity water purifiers, these inventions have the potential to dramatically impact the way people live in villages. #Innovation #RuralIndia #ImpactThatMatters

Malnutrition, depleting groundwater & unstable incomes — thanks to Sheelu Francis, 30000 families are using millets to tackle all these three problems together!

“It requires very less space to grow. In fact, if you start cultivating oyster mushrooms in a 2-litre soft drink bottle, it will give you a yield of about 0.5 kg in the first batch itself.”

DeHaat is not merely shaking institutional structures that have constricted Indian farmers for decades, but also helping them earn more, make better choices and live better lives!

People on the world's largest riverine island have cooked up a nutritious, economical and eco-friendly way of solving pest problems on their farm land — eating the pest before it eats their crop!

“The seed to dedicate ourselves for a cause larger than us was always there. The Chennai floods just acted as a catalyst, showing us the real misery of people and farmers residing in remote parts of the State, where facilities and help hardly reaches."

Children today are exposed to a lot more than we had access to, their questions and way of thinking also is different.