Innovative farmer

Rajwinder Singh Dhaliwal quit his job as a chef and returned to Punjab to start organic farming, growing sugarcane and selling value added jaggery. Here's how he did it

Ganapathi Bhat from Komale village in Karnataka, innovated the 'Areca Bike' with his friend Sharvin Maben. It can climb 90 trees in one litre of petrol and cuts labour costs by 20 per cent

Nitil Bhardwaj from Bihar quit his job to return to his village and started the Bhardwaj Pearl Farm and Training Centre to help traditional farmers grow pearls, for which he has also tied up with the fisheries department

During the COVID-19 lockdown, Dharambir Kamboj, a farmer from Damla village in Haryana, built a corn extractor machine that processes the produce into milk. This product can be used to substitute regular milk in food and drinks such as tea and gajar halwa