Farming

Engineering students of Sona College of Technology in Tamil Nadu's Salem have come up with an innovative technology that make hard water soft and optimises the mineral content in plants while saving 30% water used in irrigation

Dipankar Das from Andaman has innovated a series of daily-use items to ease the burden of farmers and daily wage earners

Two brothers in Bihar quit their jobs to form Agrifeeder startup. The duo encourages farmers to cultivate medicinal plants to earn more profits by selling spice-mixed herbal tea

60-year-old Lal Singh cultivates chillies in an arid region, using mulching and drip irrigation techniques to earn Lakhs

The farmer earned Rs 3 Lakh by selling his 10-ton yield in the first harvest season. "With all the investment and expenses gone, I still earned a profit of Rs 1.5 lakh in 14 months and that too from just two acres,"

72-year old N.K. Krishnan Nair hailing from Aranmula, Kerala started getting almost 15-20kgs of marigold every day which is now earning him close to Rs.35,000 per month.

Bihar farmers are growing black wheat, black rice and exotic fruits, boosting their incomes and bringing innovation to the farming sector

“For survival, our people would literally scale mountains and carry several litres of water over their shoulders. But, things are changing for good now.”

Without a college degree, the opportunity of getting a proper job had become slim. But he persevered.

Villgro’s iPitch 2020 is here. From helping farmers save 12 crore litres of water, to letting patients receive their scans with the click of a button - these startups were winners of iPitch and are well on their way to building the best India.