Agri-entrepreneur ventures are helping people grow vegetables, experiment with new practices, and start operating their own farms, by providing them with small plots on a rental basis. This, in turn, is helping farmers get high rentals, access to technology, and assured buyers for their produce.
In a corner of the vegetable farm, Puneet Singla walks through the neatly cut rows of cauliflowers, brinjals, tomatoes, and spinach. Sometimes he plucks the weeds or munches on a radish, which he has just harvested along with wife Rachna and the labourers on the farm. Their mobile phones are filled to the brim with pictures of their rural life
Agri reporter based in New Delhi, tracking the commodity market, food sector, trends in the hinterland to policy matters.Prime minister awardee for excellence in journalism in agricultural research and development in 2014. Invited to USA and Canada on an exchange program to see their farm and allied sector. In the past 15 years have reported from different geographies- Chandigarh, Gujarat and New Delhi which has exposed me to the highly fragmented Indian farm sector and its regional variations. Have tried my hand at organic farming. Catch me on twitter @MadhviSallyET or madhvi.sally@timesgroup.com
owning 1 acre to 2 acres and growing three or four varieties of vegetables will ensure that we get quality produce at affordable rates and an organised market for the sellers,” he says. Chopra says he aims to capture the entire value chain from farm to consumer and complete the consumer's healthy-eating basket with fresh and dry-food products.
In a corner of the vegetable farm, Puneet Singla walks through the neatly cut rows of cauliflowers, brinjals, tomatoes, and spinach. Sometimes he plucks the weeds or munches on a radish, which he has just harvested along with wife Rachna and the labourers on the farm. Their mobile phones are filled to the brim with pictures of their rural life
Agri reporter based in New Delhi, tracking the commodity market, food sector, trends in the hinterland to policy matters.Prime minister awardee for excellence in journalism in agricultural research and development in 2014. Invited to USA and Canada on an exchange program to see their farm and allied sector. In the past 15 years have reported from different geographies- Chandigarh, Gujarat and New Delhi which has exposed me to the highly fragmented Indian farm sector and its regional variations. Have tried my hand at organic farming. Catch me on twitter @MadhviSallyET or madhvi.sally@timesgroup.com
owning 1 acre to 2 acres and growing three or four varieties of vegetables will ensure that we get quality produce at affordable rates and an organised market for the sellers,” he says. Chopra says he aims to capture the entire value chain from farm to consumer and complete the consumer's healthy-eating basket with fresh and dry-food products.
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