Dr Ajay S Kalamdhad led a group of IIT-Guwahati researchers to innovate a two-stage fast biodegradation technique that can aid municipal corporations in eco-friendly organic waste management. It also produces ‘Mati Dhan’ — a top-notch vermicompost and organic compost rich in NPK and other essential nutrients for farmers.
Watch this video to see how UP resident Sana Khan turned her fascination with earthworms into S J Organics, a vermicomposting venture that sees an annual turnover of Rs 1 crore.
Hari Prakash, an urban gardener from Karnataka's Udupi, has been growing enough organic okra at home to serve the daily needs of his four-member family for the last 11 years
Mukesh and Chandramouli Pandey from Uttar Pradesh formed the Navchetna Agro Centre Producer Company Limited to convert cattle waste across 21 villages into vermicompost, which they export to countries including Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
“In these parts, a forest officer is considered a big deal and often seen as unapproachable to the common people. But DFO Dhammshil would walk and cycle into the jungle, meet people there, explain government schemes to them and emphasise that this jungle belongs to them, and not the government.”
"Even our customers could smell the chemicals in our rice and wheat. Why would they buy toxins by choice? Now our crops and vegetables are sold out the fastest at the weekly bazaar,"