Exotic fruits

Started in the apartment where she works as a domestic help, Assam's Priya Chhetri runs a small business to sell exotic fruits and nuts, with help from her employer. This International Women’s Day, let this story inspire you to #helpthemback.

Kerala resident and urgan gardener Prajeesh Janan shares how he grows a variety of Brazilian exotic fruits in his home garden, which was inspired by a Facebook video.

Rajendra Hindumane’s lush green farm in Karnataka is filled with 1,300 types of fruit plants, spices, medicinal herbs and some rare wild plants.

Bindu CK, a chemistry teacher from Kerala, shares how she grew different varieties of organic vegetables and fruits on her terrace, and how she maintains her home garden.

Anil Paul from Patna, Bihar, has maintained his terrace garden for the past 30 years. He grows exotic varieties of fruit trees and flowering plants in his 1000 sq ft garden and hasn't disposed of wet waste for 20 years.

With weather conditions becoming favourable, few villages in the south of Karnataka are now experimenting by growing strawberries, among other exotic vegetables. Some speak of harvesting up to 400 kgs of the fruit per day.

It all began when Hari left his job as a senior scientist at the Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre in Chennai and moved to his hometown to take care of his ailing mother.

Exotic fruit trees like katemfe, rollinia deliciosa, arazaboi, mangosteen, snake fruit, milk fruit, pulasan, durian, chamaliang, burmese grapes, ilang ilang and many rare varieties of mangoes, custard apple, pineapples, and bananas are part of this farm.