engineer turned farmer

250 delicious organic watermelons in just 4X4 square metres. Nitesh spent only Rs 4,000 to grow them and earned more than Rs 30,000 on selling them! #FarmersFirst

Apart from growing chemical-free food, he also created a seed bank named Aadhiyagai (which means first blooming in Tamil), with more than 300 native vegetable and fruit seeds.

Rohan Prakash is a civil engineer, whose passion for agriculture is entirely homegrown, as both his father and grandfather, who were also civil engineers by profession, have been passionately invested in farming and agriculture.

Farming too can be quite rewarding - both mentally and financially.

Meet Pramod Gautam - a former automobile engineer who switched to farming (of all things) in 2006 and after implementing a radically different method of cultivation, while also helping other farmers grow as well.

Abhishek Singhania could have enjoyed his corporate job, which earned him more than a lakh’s salary every month. Or he could have chosen to stay back at his stately house in Kolkata, joining his parents’s well-established business. But he chose a rather tough path to make a smoother road to success for our farmers.

Ranganadh grows groundnut, lentils and millets using the natural farming method in his 26 acre land situated in Ayyavaripalli village of Mahabub Nagar district of Telangana.

In 2013, Sachin left his luxurious life in Gurgaon, where he was working as a manager for Punj Lloyd, getting a hefty salary of 24 lakh per annum, and shifted to Medhpar to become a farmer. Today, Sachin’s company is helping 137 happy farmers working on 200 acres of land and drawing a turnover of approximately Rs. 2 crore.

Shankar left his job in 2012 after working for Infosys for 15 years in India and abroad, and opted to become a farmer.

Cowism is a startup founded by computer engineer Chetan Raut, who believes the integration of indigenous cows in agriculture is the only solution to stopping farmer suicides.