organic farming

Avid home gardeners, Subhash Surti and his family’s home boasts of over 400 organic plant varieties such as seasonal vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and more. But the most unique part of this garden is a special potato that grows in vines rather than underground. Here’s how.

Haryana-based Sumer Singh has been farming since 1999 but his switch to organic farming to grow vegetables, pulses, chickpeas and millets has been life-changing.

At a time when Delhi's air pollution is making news, meet an urban gardener who used terrace gardening to transform her home into a lush green paradise filled with birds.

Swapna James from Kerala is earning lakhs by making a switch from monocropping, and her efforts have earned her the Innovative Farmer Award by ICAR. Here's her success story.

Neelofar Jaan from Pulwama, Kashmir, has been able to attain financial independence thanks to mushrooms. Watch this video to see what methods she employs to reap big profits, and how she is able to finance her education and take care of her family.

Right after graduation, as his peers went to look for career opportunities in Tier-1 cities, or sat for competitive exams, Sandeep Kannan turned to hydroponics farming, a relatively new concept in his hometown, Tirupati. Here's how he's reaping success through his startup, Vyavasayi Bhoomi.

Nanda Kishore Reddy, a former techie with an IT company in Hyderabad, left his steady job at the start of COVID-19 pandemic to help his father, a farmer, maximise yields and profits growing spinach and English cucumber.

Dharambir Kamboj was a cycle rickshaw puller working on the streets of Delhi. Today the 58-year-old from Damla village in Yamunanagar district, Haryana, is a farmer, rural innovator and entrepreneur. In 2013, he even received a National Award from the President of India.

Puli Raju from Telangana is a government school teacher, who has worked for over two decades with families of farmer suicide victims to get them their rightful compensation, financial aid, mental support, and more

Ashok Jadhav, an organic farmer from Chinchner in Maharashtra, built a ‘jugaad’ device that is now a hit among the farming community.