pearls

After stumbling upon an online ad, two factory workers from Haryana — Salinder Kumar and Rajesh Goswami — enrolled in a pearl farming course that changed their lives. What began as a side hustle soon grew into ‘Jai Shri Pearl Farming’, a Rs 1 crore business with farms across India and customers around the world.

Once a bookseller, Narendra Kumar Girwa ventured into freshwater pearl farming to earn a better income. He shares a step-by-step guide to successful pearl cultivation.

Jitender Choudhary, an exporter of pearls from Uttar Pradesh, shares a step-by-step guide on how to set up and grow pearls in a glass tank at home.

“I am the first entrepreneur in the family, and it’s only natural that people were unsure about me taking up this work. But what is life without a bit of risk? So instead, I convinced my father and got started.” #WomanEntrepreneur

Two years ago, this sugarcane farmer made a decision that helped turn all his losses into an additional source of income! It was to do pearl farming. Today, his additional annual income is to the tune of Rs 8 lakhs!

An engineer by profession, Jamalpur village resident Vinod Yadav had initially considered breeding fish in the pond