kerala farmer

Philip Mathew conducts farming on 34 acres of leased property in Palakkad and Ooty to grow all types of vegetables and select fruit varieties.

Ezekiel Poulose from Kerala owns a 4-acre land where he grows hundreds of varieties of rare medicinal plants and practices integrated farming too.

Farmer K T Francis runs a lush organic farm where he grows different varieties of coconut, pepper, arecanut, etc., and earns lakhs from his harvest.

Omana Devasya, known as the ‘ginger woman’ farmer from Kozhikode, Kerala, harvested 4-4.5 kg of ginger from one grow bag. She shares tips on how to start successful cultivation.

Seema Ratheesh, a mathematics teacher from Kasargod district in Kerala, used her extra time during the COVID-19 lockdown to organically cultivate the Sugar Queen variety of watermelons.

John Varghese from Thrissur in Kerala began experimenting with aquaponics in 2019 on his terrace, and today, his garden has a wide variety of plants including tomato, brinjal and lettuce, as well as a banana tree.

“The problem was that the grow bags that I used started decaying in just a few months. I wanted to create something that could last for years," explains Eyo, a fourth-generation farmer.