horticulture

Khunti district in Jharkhand has been infamous for illegal poppy farming for a long time with dealers luring the villagers to cultivate opium, offering them huge amounts of money.

One of the main precautions that farmers take before the monsoon season is to spray copper sulphate to protect the crop from fruit rot disease. However, due to the twin problems of labour shortage and the height of the trees, it is a tortuous task.

Axis Bank Foundation, in association with the NGO, Srijan, through the Buddha Fellowship Programme, has taken on-board IIM graduates and is nurturing these young individuals to take up entrepreneurial roles in the development sector.

A forward-thinking Jagdish Prajapat of Bangreda Mamadev Gram Panchayat under Nimbahera block has proven that strawberry cultivation can be a booming business in this northwestern side of India.

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.

The police department believes training the cops in gardening and landscaping will keep them preoccupied, which will in turn act as a great stress buster.

Green Leaf India is claimed to be India's first organic market run solely by residents, with help from the local horticultural department.

Developed by a Mumbai-based design studio, Altifarm is a mobile horticultural unit designed keeping urban space constraints in mind.

Sushant Madaan, an organic farming enthusiast from Gurugram has set up a first-of-its-kind aquaponic farm of Northern India.