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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.

Smarika Chandrakar quit a thriving 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.

Delhi-based pastry chef Kishi Arora has a green oasis growing on her terrace that is popular on the internet. With sunflowers, grapevines and exotic plants sourced from the world over, she is weaving a green path of her own.

As rising prices of tomatoes throw meme-makers into an overdrive, we trace the history of India’s ‘Wilayati Baingan’ and share 10 easy steps to help you grow tomatoes at home.

Neha Sumitran who lives in Kodaikanal with her husband has created a mini food forest in her backyard, and has many rare fruits and vegetables growing there, including the Peruvian tree tomato.

Krushna Nag from Odisha grows season vegetables and fruits such as mangoes, pomegranates, and bananas using a variety of organic methods

Over the past six years, Devraj has grown carports, beans, cherry tomatoes, giloy, curry leaves, three types of lemongrass and even drumstick

Farmer Moti Singh from Rajasthan has achieved extra-long chillies through organic methods, using his polyhouse

“We plan as per the season and often scour through the local nurseries to get our seeds etc. In terms of a daily time commitment, it takes us a good two hours each day."

Can tomatoes be grown at -17ºC? Thanks to researchers at #DRDO, Ladakhi farmers are not just growing them without using any chemicals, they are producing a harvest that's twice the national average!