Agriculture

Women farmers of Maharashtra's drought-prone Marathwada are building a better future through an innovative organic farming model that saves water and doubles production

Gramophone, an agri-tech startup co-founded by IIM-A graduates, has catered to over 8.5 lakh farmers, received over 1 million calls on their toll-free number and their multilingual app has been installed 2 lakh times.

Tired of walking miles for a pot of water, Kadwanchi village in Maharashtra's drought-prone Marathwada turned it around with a stunning example of water conservation. Today, its residents are earning crores from grape farming

Twenty farmers from Balagarh Block in West Bengal’s Hooghly district are growing a variety of watermelons using the poly mulching technique endorsed by the ATMA (Agriculture Technology Management Agency) scheme. This method saves water and improves the fertility of the land too.

Ganapathi Bhat from Komale village in Karnataka, innovated the 'Areca Bike' with his friend Sharvin Maben. It can climb 90 trees in one litre of petrol and cuts labour costs by 20 per cent

Ganesh Fartade, a student of journalism and farmer from Beed, Maharashtra, runs 'Royal Shetkari', a YouTube channel that aims to equip the farming community with knowledge and inspiration on how to handle various issues

Debashish Sen introduced the System of Rice (or Root) Intensification (SRI) technique to farmers in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in 2006, which was originally invented in the 1980s in Madagascar.

A resident of Thumbur village in Thrissur district of Kerala, Tom Kiron Davis quit his job in Dubai to change the perception towards farming. He now helps several farmers earn in lakhs annually.

Eleven farmers from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra formed farmer producer company KisanKonnect during COVID-19 lockdown to sell vegetables directly to customers from Mumbai, Pune and earn more profits

Anirudh Chaoji from Nagpur used rainwater harvesting, crop rotation, and solar systems to revive the ecosystem of his ancestral land, while also resolving the man-animal conflict in near Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary and Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.