Indian Celebrities Who Practice Farming & Stay Connected To Their Roots

While there are many celebrities, who invests millions of rupees in their luxurious mansions & swimming pool, there are several others as well, who have a second career as a Farmer. While some of them don’t want to lose the touch with their roots, there are others, who have taken it up in response to chemically-treated produce which we are forced to consume.

Here is the list of Celebrities, who enjoys sowing, tilling & harvesting vegetables and grains on their farms. These Celebrities have taken up farming & proved that it’s not just an occupation but a way of life as well.

Salman Khan

At his Panvel Farmhouse, Salman Khan was many times seen doing things that brought him peace & joy. He was seen working in paddy fields. From ploughing the fields to riding tractors & cutting crops, he could be seen practicing farming during the Covid-19 Lockdown also.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The actor, before venturing into the world of films, was a Farmer. Even after his success in Bollywood, he has not quit doing, what he used to do in earlier times, for about 20 years of his life. When he is not acting, he is tilling soil in his farms in Uttar Pradesh. He often shares glimpses from the mustard fields owned by his family.

Juhi Chawla

Juhi Chawla enjoys doing farming; she also came out in support of farmers, when the covid-19 pandemic had hit them hard. She lent her family farmland to the landless farmers to let them cultivate rice in the season.

“Since we are in a lockdown, I have decided to give our land to the landless farmers to farm on. We are letting them farm rice, this season & in return take a little portion of the produce for themselves. It’s not a new practice. It’s just going back to the past to the way farming was done decades ago, but then isn’t that the wiser way? Our farmers know the soil, land, air & wind far better than we city people ever will from our textbook knowledge”, she was quoted as saying by IANS.

Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)

From feeding the animals to growing fresh vegetables such as broccoli & tomatoes, Dharmendra keeps giving his fans a glimpse of his farm life on his Instagram & Twitter handle. In fact,  in the covid-19 lockdown, he spent, most of his time doing organic farming.

Kangana Ranaut

The actress, Kangana Ranaut recently revealed that her mother single-handedly grows almost everything; one might need in a kitchen. She spends her time during the lockdown in her ancestral home in Manali, where she helped her mother in farming.