sustainable agriculture

Meet the entrepreneurs turning millets into modern, nutritious foods, supporting India’s small-scale farmers while championing sustainability.

Santhosh Kumar harnesses the power of microcomputers and open-source software to remotely manage his innovative hydroponic farm. His tech driven approach even bagged him the 2023 State Farm Award for Innovation in Kerala.

Discover how the Pathak family transformed their lives and community through innovative pearl farming and sustainable practices in Narayanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Rajesh Singh, an electronics engineer, was not ready to accept the idea that farming is a backward occupation. For him, doing something different was not by getting a job in the city but by changing the outlook towards agriculture.

Rajwinder Singh Dhaliwal quit his job as a chef and returned to Punjab to start organic farming, growing sugarcane and selling value added jaggery. Here's how he did it

Nitesh Mukane, who works at Aroehan NGO, details how they have helped tribal villagers in Maharashtra by solving their water crisis, improving health among women and children and increasing farm income.

While the process ultra high-density planting (UHDP) has been practised for years in Israel and South Africa, it is only recently being followed by a handful of enterprising farmers like 62-year-old Parmanand Gavane in Maharashtra.

Bhibhu Sahu from Odisha is a rice mill owner, who began selling rice husk produced as a by-product of his mills to steel companies across the globe. In 2019, he sold about 100 tonnes of husk pellets to these companies

"My gardeners handed me a packet of seeds with the warning: Treated with poisonous chemicals. Do not consume directly. If these seeds were growing vegetables inside my house, how can we be sure about the food we buy from a store?"

25 years ago, when this young teenager with no degree made the journey from England to Tamil Nadu, he hardly had an idea about how life-altering the decision would be.