Sustainable Farming

Shubha Bhatnagar, a 63-year-old homemaker, started Shubhavni SmartFarms to grow saffron indoors using aeroponics, aiming to provide employment to rural women with her family's support.

Dr Manoj Kumar’s innovative farming techniques and research are changing makhana cultivation in Bihar for good. By introducing flood-resistant methods, shallow water farming, and high-yielding lotus seed varieties, he’s helping farmers increase their incomes and meet growing global demand for this superfood.

Smarika Chandrakar quit a corporate career to become a full-time farmer in Chhattisgarh. With 125 people employed in her fields, she hopes to introduce advanced technology to improve productivity.

Meet Vikash Abraham and his team at Urban Farms Co, which uses the lucrative regenerative farming model to prevent stubble burning and help lakhs of farmer earn more through chemical-free farming, for which it has now won international recognition.

Former German language teacher Milan Sharma co-founded Revnar Farms with her husband Chetan Sharma and has implemented a sustainable, organic farming model.

Green World Foundation started by Indra Raj Jat and Seema Saini from Jaipur, Rajasthan, is an agro-tourism venture that hosts its guests in mud houses that were inspired by the traditional villages of Rajasthan.

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.

A resident of Thumbur village in Thrissur district of Kerala, Tom Kiron Davis quit his job in Dubai to change the perception towards farming. He now helps several farmers earn in lakhs annually.

Sumit Sheoran and Sudhanshu Rai launched Fyllo, a Bengaluru-based Agritech startup in an effort to solve the major problems that plagued farmers. Their device, integrating software and hardware, helps sense and analyse real-time data of crops and predict diseases

“The way we are going, in the next 2 to 3 years, we will successfully be able to contribute 70 to 75 per cent of the total makhana production in the world.”