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“I feel blessed that I have been worthy of my village. My savings have been wiped out, but I am confident that once my crops begin fruiting, I will be able to clear off my debts,” says Prof Kamate.

As COVID-19 cases are on a steady rise and lockdown has affected thousands of wage earners, this IAS officer made the most of the situation and optimised the available resources to solve two problems.

“Farmers are becoming more intelligent as well. Their attitudes are changing, besides looking towards what can fetch them better prices.”

“I never thought this system would become so famous. In the past 8 months, I’ve sold more than 20,000 of these units and the orders are just flowing in!” Biju exclaims.

“Now, our main aim is to reach out to two million farmers in the next five years where we serve them with a range of solutions.” says founder Vijay.

The ‘Smart Fault Preventer and Irrigation Controller’ lets farmers irrigate their farms automatically, handles high voltage power and also manages electricity fluctuations - all in one go!

Nowadays, we can see air pollution levels growing right in front of our eyes. The most basic thing we can do to curb this is to increase the number of trees in our cities,"

Lifting a record-breaking 3 tmfct of water/day, the Rs 80,000-crore project is set to create history in a state where the 2nd highest number of farmers commits suicide due to failed monsoons!

And it also the reduces the methane footprint of paddy farming, thus helping in tackling global warming!

"The area under Rabi and summer crops shrunk sharply due to mere 66 percent of the average rainfall during the Kharif season in 2017."