Agriculture

Watch how farmers of Uttarakhand are following a traditional method of farming to sustain their crops even in harsh climatic conditions. Know more about the Baranaja method and how it is helping them.

These seven first-generation farming entrepreneurs believed in revolutionizing agriculture in India. A random discussion on agriculture problems of India ended up in the ground-breaking idea of Bombay Hemp Company. From shattering perceptions to bringing hemp into the mainstream crop market, there is a lot this team has done to innovate in the agriculture sector.

Girish Badragond, a 28 year old from Bijapur District in Karnataka, came to Bangalore in 2006 with a laptop, a wireless router and a 1-way bus fare. Read the story of how this same man is solving Indian farmers' irrigation problems through his interesting innovations. All that without even having a degree!

Twenty years of hard work and devotion has made Kalaivani from Vellitiruppur, Tamil Nadu a celebrity of sorts in the organic farming circles in Erode district and beyond. In this video, learn how she has adopted organic practices on her farm and tripled her profits in addition to reaping many other benefits!

An innovative idea by a farmer in Chennimalai, Tamil Nadu lets farmers create their own liquid manure out of the cow dung and urine available in their farms. Watch him explain how the organic manure factory works and how it can be set up by just anyone for a cost of Rs.800 only!

Self-sufficient farming gives women in Alipurduar food, health and confidence! At a time when chemicals have virtually replaced nutrients in food, women in this tiny area of West Bengal are growing food in a natural way - a method that is not just organic but uses ways to combine nature's cycles and elements, creating a complementary ensemble. This is a way in which plants, animals, insects and all the elements of nature come together in harmony and leave little waste. Read more to know how they achieve this.

Remember the 2004 Bollywood film in which an NRI Mohan Bhargava (played by Shah Rukh Khan) returns to India and is moved by the harsh realities faced by the people in his village to become an agent of change? The name of that film was Swades, and here is an organization called Swades Foundation that shares a similar mission - to bring about change in rural India. To know how they are doing this, read more.

This story of the untiring efforts of a commerce ex-lecturer to convert twenty five acres of a barren piece of land into a self sustainable green farm, provides an ideal example of a model for rainwater harvesting and demonstrates how persistence and the sheer determination to go on till the end, can yield miraculous results.