How Tamil Nadu farmer increased profits & cut costs by 30% through organic farming

Ramasamy Selvam, an organic farmer in Thalavumalai village of Tamil Nadu’s Erode district, has cut [...]

Ecotourism meets rural art & culture at Gujarat’s Woods at Sasan

On the Sasan-Talala highway in Gujarat’s Gir, an 8-acre mango orchard with nearly 300 trees [...]

Rajasthan: Dacoits from Chambal’s badlands give up guns for farming

Ram Avtar Gurjar was a dreaded dacoit who looted and killed without remorse in the [...]

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Phool: where women turn temple flowers into incense, bio-thermocol & vegan leather

“Abhi nahi niklenge toh kabhi nahi niklenge (If I don’t step out now, I won’t [...]

Jayant Barve: Maharashtra’s organic farmer who became manure millionaire

Sometime in 1988, Jayant Barve was marketing chemicals, pesticides and fertilisers to farmers in Vita, [...]

Gujarat’s Pabiben Rabari: from a daily wager to a millionaire entrepreneur

“I was five, my sister was three and my mother was due with my youngest [...]

Sundarini: the organic milk revolution by women of Sundarbans

An all-women organic dairy cooperative covering 70 villages of Sundarbans is creating waves in the [...]

How mushroom farming is increasing incomes for women in Jharkhand

Kamla Devi is busy preparing 250gm-packets of oyster mushrooms at her home in Serengdih tribal [...]

Gujarat’s MBA farmer Chintan Shah turns infertile land into organic farm of turmeric, ginger & wheat

What happens when an MBA from one of India’s top-ranking institutes decides to take up [...]

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How home chef Sumitra Kalapatapu is popularising the little-known Andhra Brahmin cuisine

About five years back, home chef Sumitra Kalapatapu received a call. The man on the [...]