Success stories

This section contains success stories or success mantras of different farmers of India.

• Farmer Couple Revives Old Polluted Land; Set to Harvest Pearl Millet, Sesame

  Sakhi Trust helps farmers revive fertile land damaged by iron ore mining. Chape Hanumaiya, an Indian farmer, struggled for years to plant anything on his little plot of land, which was caked in thick, red dust from the iron ore mines that surrounded it.…

• This Man is Earning Lakhs through Pearl Farming: Provides Training to Farmers

  Nitil Bhardwaj from Bihar quit his job to return to his village and started the Bhardwaj Pearl Farm and Training Centre to help traditional farmers grow pearls, for which he has also tied up with the fisheries department…

• From being a Complete Novice to Earning Rs 85000 by Growing Jasmine during Lockdown- Kirana’s Story

  During the COVID-19 lockdown, Mangaluru’s Kirana Devadiga began growing jasmine plants at home. Her passion for gardening has now turned her into an entrepreneur, earning her Rs 85,000 so far.…

• An Auto Mechanic-Turned-Farmer, Earns 50 Lakh/Year By Growing 22 Varieties of Mango

  Kakasaheb Sawant, an auto mechanic turned farmer from Maharashtra's Sangli region, explains how he raises the Kesar mango type on his 10-acre property.…

• Sneh Rana, Daughter of a Farmer Creates Cricket History in Bristol

  Sneh Rana's unbroken 80 at No. 8 in the one-off Test against England in Bristol on Saturday helped India draw the match. She became the first Indian woman and the fourth overall to have a fifty-plus score and a four-wicket haul on Test debut in…

• Story of Ranjith R Panathoor: From Night Guard to IIM Professor

  The story of Ranjith R Panathoor is currently going viral on Facebook along with a picture of his dilapidated tiled hut covered with a tarpaulin sheet to prevent rainwater from seeping in.…

• Meet the “Mango Man” of India Kalimullah Khan who grew a Mango tree with more than 300 Varieties

  Kalimullah Khan, age 80, known as the “Mango Man,”of India has created a magical mango tree that grows more than 300 varieties.…

• Women’s Day 2021: Manya Singh, Autorickshaw Driver’s Daughter Becomes Femina Miss India Runner-Up

  Know Women’s Day 2021 success story of Manya Singh, Femina Miss India Runner-Up is the daughter of autorickshaw driver’s daughter.…

• Uttarakhand Farmer Receives Padma Shri for Diversification & Innovation in Agriculture

  Dehradun, Uttarakhand: Prem Chand Sharma, locally called as Anarwale Sharmaji receives Padma Shree Award for focus on diversified farming in the state by growing high quality crops organically.…

• Harisharan Devgan: Changing the anatomy of farming with organic manures and pesticides

  Organic agribusiness is an important tool for achieving Green productivity in agriculture and mitigates the negative impacts of the conventional intensive agricultural methods. Organic farming reduces carbon footprints, preserves and builds soil health, replenishes common biological systems for cleaner water and air, all without poisonous…

• Harisharan Devgan: Entrepreneurial Success in Farming

  Drought! Loans! Rains! It often makes us see that farmers have endless suffering of lives and agriculture have no scope. But Harisharan Devgan says, though agriculture reaps the benefits as a social service, it still remains as one of the most profitable business.…

• Roy Anthony, a Wayanad Farmer shows that Success brings Success

  We have heard about many people who have been successful in various areas of life. One such person is Roy Anthony, a Wayanad farmer.…

• Harisharan Devgan: Perspective on Water Conservation and Management

  Exiguity of water is an austere issue in many densely populated regions. Harisharan Devgan, an efficacious and passionate farmer believes that "Harvest the rain and reap the gain".…

• Harisharan Devgan Transforming the Future of Indian Agriculture

  Harisharan Devgan, also known as Karan Devgan is a name that has become synonymous with entrepreneurial success. A dynamic and multidimensional personality, scaling new heights of achievement with every passing moment, he still remains grounded to his roots and boasts of being a farmer by…

• Harisharan Devgan - A Farmer who thought of Ferrari

  Harisharan Devgan, also known as Karan Devgan, has been undisputedly India’s most enterprising agripreneur. He rose from humble beginnings to begin his journey with organic farming.…

• What is Veda Farming? This Woman Farmer from Telangana is Earning Double Yield through This New Technique

  R Lakshmi Reddy, who hails from Kondaparakala village in Manakonduru mandal in neighbouring Karimnagar district, came up with the new method while working in the farm along with her husband.…

• Three friends from Uttar Pradesh earned Rs. 10 lakh through Organic Farming in the very First Season

  Here in between the scenario of opposition to the Farm Bill by some farmers, we have the story of three young friends of Maharajganj who started farming after completing MBA, BSc, and BCom. They started organic farming with the help of technical support from the…

• This farmer from Mysuru proves how Natural Farming is Profitable & Economically Viable

  Like the Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka , a 50-year-old farmer in a village in Karnataka have shown that beautiful forests and farms can arise from nothingness. In Bannur village, T Narasipur taluk, Krishnappa Dasappa Gowda's farm looks less like a traditional agricultural field and more…

• The Women Farmer and Awardee who is set to Reap Gold from Soil

  In a Conversation with Dolly ,Women Farmer who conveys she knows nothing but only to cultivate and farm. She has been farming for more than 30 years in Kasaragode,Kerala…

• Inspiring Story of a Farmer from Idukki who created A Spices Society to help Farmers Reclaim the Soils and Sell their Products

  K. Ramesan, a farmer from Idukki, Kerala cultivates cardamom, ginger, turmeric, pepper & rubber and sells the products in the Prakash Gram Spices Farmers Society. Idukki farmers are continuously been faced not only by market and prices, but also natural disasters and wild animals.…

• Know All about the Forest Man of Kerala, Mr. K V Dayal

  KV Dayal, a great nature lover, created a great forest on one and a half acres, which is a model for the world today. On the one-and-a-half-acre land adjacent to the house, there are about two hundred different plants, about a thousand creatures, and two…

• IIT Graduates are Earning Rs 80 Lakh per Month from Exotic Vegetables

  The story starts from IIT-Bombay. Two friends Mayank Gupta and Lalit Jhawar were pursuing engineering at IIT. And, in early 2018, Mayank quit his job and returned home for good. He said, “I became homesick and felt the need to work in a sustainable food…

• The Kerala Farmer who amazes us by making money from Arrowroot Tubers and its Value Addition

  The Village of Kulappally Mambattapadi in Kerala is now known as the Valluvanadan headquarters of Arrow root. Valluvanad refers to a region in present-day central Kerala and was, at various periods, an independent kingdom (officially the Kingdom of Vellattiri ), a district within the kingdom…

• A Daily wage Labourer to get Best Farmer Tilak Award from Kerala Government; Binsi Shares her Success Story

  The Binsi-James couple of Idukki need not be introduced to anyone who loves farming. Yes, they were a couple who had stepped into the steps of success in agriculture with a tireless mind in the difficult times of their lives.…

• Pooja Bharati Who Studied from IIT Quits Rs. 22 Lakh Job to Start farming

  Pooja, a pass out from IIT, was doing a fantastic job at India's large state-owned GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited). But whenever he remembers his village, his heart gets depressed. Pooja Bharati, originally from Bihar Sharif in Nalanda district, was a promising student.…

• This Girl has a Mini Floral Forest on Her Terrace; Grows more than 500 Varieties of Fruits, Veggies

  Terrace gardening has become a quite popular nowadays. In urban India, houses doesn't have space for lawns and yards to start a garden. Here comes the option of terrace gardening.…

• Meet this Graduate from Warwick who left his stable career to start a Business in Sustainable Flower Industry

  "When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower." We are in conversation with Karan Rastogi, a Masters from Warwick Business School (UK), who came back to India to join his family shoe-manufacturing business. Leaving an option of…

• The Aeronautical Engineer who grew Vegetables, Fruits in his backyard during COVID-19 and inspired neighbours

  Sijo always wanted to stay in his village and enjoy the backyard gardening and always wanted to get more people to make them involved in the idea of growing food. Covid-19 gave him the best opportunity to start growing food, start his own YouTube channel…

• Mumbai based couple makes big profit by selling their DIY roof top gardening kits during lockdown

  Tanvi and Ankur Agarwal, a Mumbai based couple launched their own small company named “Bombay Greens” earlier this year in the month of May.…

• Meet This Housewife who earns a High Sustainable Income through Homemade Fruits and their Byproducts

  Sereena earns good money by selling fruits and also their by-products. She is very cool and very enterprising and marketing. Sereena is a fruit entrepreneur based in Kottayam with a degree in home science and runs an online store for her value-based product. Home-grown pineapple,…