Uttar Pradesh

Anshul Mishra, a computer science graduate, returned to his roots in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to transform barren ancestral land into a thriving dragon fruit farm. Combining fresh fruit sales with a lucrative nursery business, he now generates impressive profits.

On the edge of Uttar Pradesh’s Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, villagers once lived in fear of tigers and leopards. But a predator‑proof house cluster is changing life, offering a hopeful balance between people and the wild around them.

When dust from a nearby threshing machine filled her classroom, a Class 8 student asked a simple question. Years later, that moment took her from a village school in Uttar Pradesh to Tokyo, with a solution farmers can actually use.

A TV clip on Israeli farms sparked a question in Dheeraj Verma's mind and pushed him to try something new on his own land. What followed was a shift in how he grew food, saved resources, and found a better way to support his family.

After losing his dairy savings, Raj Singh turned to vermicomposting, building a Rs 2.5 crore business and helping farmers adopt organic farming.

Discover how ex-scientist Kamini Singh used her research to build Doctor Moringa Pvt Ltd, creating 22 moringa products and transforming incomes of rural farmers across UP.

In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.

Thousands of birds fly from Europe and Central Asia to a wetland many Indians haven’t heard of. Parvati Arga, a Ramsar site in UP’s Gonda district, isn’t famous—but with oxbow lakes, over 150 species, and no crowds, it might be one of India’s best-kept birding secrets.

Explore the incredible story of Kalimullah Khan, whose innovative grafting technique resulted in a mango tree with 350 varieties. Learn how his lifelong dedication to horticulture made his orchard a global marvel.

Ramesh Gera cracked the code to growing the world’s most expensive spice indoors and is now training over 12,000 people to follow suit.