salt farmers

The Agariyas are a community of salt farmers who carve out a living in one of the harshest environments imaginable, the Rann of Kutch. This is the story of their struggles and how an organization is helping them take important steps towards a better future.

Mohammad Methar Hussain and his brother Mushtaq Ahmad wanted power for irrigation and they developed a low cost windmill made out of bamboo, which is more than 10 times cheaper than the regular ones available in the market. Now, there are more than 25 such windmills running in Gujarat. Read to know more about their journey and how they did it.