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After having worked for around 15 years in the Customs and Central Excise section, I decided to work for myself. When I came across organic cultivation, I studied it for 2-3 years. Today, I have my 3 acre organic farm at Salem. I am practising organic cultivation for the past 2 years. I have...

Mr Sanjay Suryawanshi – a post graduate in agriculture extension hails from an agricultural family from Sangli, Maharashtra. Mr Sanjay began his stint with the agricultural sector through a pesticide company in 1999. He now works at Citrus Processing Pvt Ltd. based at Nanded, Maharashtra. As...

With her on-going research on mono-floral honey types and with her father being an apiculture farmer, the knowledge that Ms Janani has accumulated in Apiculture is quite vast and informative. Ms Janani, please share details about yourself. I am a research Scholar from the Indian Institute of...

Director and co-founder of New Lead Dynamic Technologies, Mr Akash Agarwal a few years ago aimed at designing a solution wherein local farm waste could be used locally to improve milk production for dairy farmers. This idea evolved and today they have a manufacturing facility to manufacture bio...

With more than 20 years of experience in horticulture, particularly, for exotic food crops, Dr G. Karunakaran has been working in Coorg predominantly and also worked in the northern part of India, in places like Lucknow and Delhi. Over the years, he has accumulated experience in cultivation of...

@msiva78 - Please note the meeting is at 3 pm today.

@roysingh - We have an online meeting today at 3 pm on Bamboo cultivation. Here is the link for more details https://www.agricultureinformation.com/forums/threads/mr-ramakrishnan-r-on-bamboo-cultivation-in-india-and-its-uses-15th-november-2024-at-3-00pm.207984/

Our farm revenues have increased 10 times with the change in crops and farming practices. Till 1995 in our farm traditional crops were cultivated using chemical agri inputs but along with my younger brother, Vikrant I stepped out of the comfort zone and took the risk to turn our farmland into an...

Grows strawberry on his ancestral farm at Rajasthan to introduce new crops to farmers and arrange for peaceful retirement life “Farmers in my Birantiya Kailan village, Pali district, Rajasthan never heard about strawberry as they were used to growing only traditional crops like bajra, maize...

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“There are many medicinally rich exotic crops grown exclusively in mountains as it requires below 25 degree Celsius temperature. If these products are grown commercially it will not only improve the livelihood of the farmers but also improve the health of the consumers because crops grown in...

Mr. Darshan Singh and Mr. Manmohan Singh originally from Punjab are settled in Tamil Nadu growing different varieties of fruits. They migrated to Vallandhai village, Ramanathapuram district in 2017 and turned the deserted land into fruit growing green belt. Locals in Vallandhai village left...

Mr. Aman Lakra, farmer from Abhaypur village, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh started his life as a farmer with dairy farming. His only asset was his family owned 1.5 acre farmland on which he used to grow some fodder and cereals for his personal use. As dairy unit operations were standardized...

Committed to conserve water, land and forest to resolve the imbalance in nature. Has revived 11 rivers in three Indian states and constructed 11,800 water bodies for water conservation “Due to water scarcity people in villages are uprooting themselves, leaving their homes, farmland and...

On my return from Belgium in December 2013, I did commercial farming in 100% natural way for two years in my farm to attain hands-on experience. In this period I observed doing natural farming is easy and farmers are also ready to stop the use of chemicals in their farm but the bigger challenge...

Farmer owns the land! He has an asset that economically appreciates every day then why he must be looked down? What is the need to commit the suicide? Farmer only needs a farming model that makes his farm self-contained and brings in money every day. With just one acre of farmland it is possible...

Consumers are not able to find organically grown vegetables easily and those available are either not fresh or too expensive. Also inspite of paying 30-40% more price than the usual market price consumers are not sure if the vegetables are really organic! Besides they want to grow the vegetables...

Myself and my brother, Ajinkya left our banking jobs in 2014 and 2010 respectively to turn into full time farmers. Being sons of a farmer, we share an irreplaceable bond with the soil so we took up farming. We wanted to pursue farming in a holistic way therefore we discontinued use of chemicals...

Medicinal plants cultivation is boon for the farmers. We earn around Rs. 2-3 lakh/acre through this amazing wild crop. It has steady market demand and selling price. When we list the conventional crops cultivated in one column and its selling price on next column we can see none of the crop like...

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