India agriculture

Moved by the suffering in his hometown, Basaiah Hiremath left a high-paying job in the US to return to Karnataka. His solution? Moringa: a superfood that changed thousands of lives.

“I could have easily stayed on as a worker in the shop, but taking the leap into entrepreneurship and farming has enhanced my understanding of floriculture,” says Arup Kumar Ghosh, a marigold farmer in Kolaghat.

Pratibha Jha, an entrepreneur from Darbhanga, Bihar, turned a Rs 500 investment into a successful mushroom farming business. With a monthly turnover of Rs 2 lakh, she now trains over 10,000 farmers, empowering them with mushroom cultivation skills.

The researchers cultured a fungus in the lab and subsequently assessed its role in promoting plant growth in water deficit conditions.