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When he started this project people consider him as a mad man but now Maheshbhai is a role model for nearby village’s farmer.ĭr.

In farming he uses drip irrigation and ripe the benefits by cultivating watermelon, tomato, cabbage etc. He started project in 2014 with single cow today he has 5 cows and 5 calf of 1-3 years age. Mr Gajear prepared a project on Gir Cow based milk,Ghee, Buttermilk and organic farming with a view of 3 years with earning target of 6.00 lacs per annum. In his parental village Makhiyala in Junagadh district He got 1 acre land of his share from parents. He strikes an idea of Cow base livelihood along with organic farming.

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Still animal husbandry and modern farming is the great options for rural India. It is bigger problem for government, local authorities and social scientist. So farmers have to migrate into urban area for employment and that leads to high density in urban areas. Population increase in India is the major indicator for unemployment, and due to this agricultural land separated in smaller piece. This Bangalore-based portal which started operations last year also . “We have removed the middlemen,” says Prashanth Patil, founder,, who claims to have a database of over 18,000 farmers across India. is one such e-commerce platform for farmers. While Shah, Malwadkar and Mohandas have independently taken their produce online, not all farmers see the need to start their own website, but go with an aggregator who can help find them a suitable bulk or retail buyer online. Mohandas sells 150-200 kg rice per month for Rs 100 per kg, all grown on his 10-acre farm. “Many people sell artificially coloured rice in the market, so our rice is sought after since it is natural,” he says. I get money directly from the customers and there is no worrying about distributors and middle men,” says Mohandas who supplies to clients in Karnataka, Bengal and Mumbai.

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“We have a website () and an android app (available on Google play). Besides his own product, he also sources from farmers nearby.įor Prabhal Mohandas, a farmer from Palakkad, Kerala, taking the brown ‘Matta’ rice online was a logical step.

“People think farmers are not aware of the Internet, but there many who use WhatsApp to keep in touch,” says Malwadkar who takes online orders for ghee, paneer, khoya, rice and some seasonal vegetables in and around Pune city. However, we used to have 30 cows, and that is how the business began with milk products,” says the 28-year-old Malwadkar. “We grow garlic, sugarcane, chilli and drumstick. “We charge Rs 1,800 for 20 kg of alphonso – cheaper than marke .įurther out west, in Pune, agriculture graduate Pratiksheet Avinash Malwadkar saw the scope of the online market for farmers and started his site paneerwala.in last year. We now have buyers from Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Mumbai,” says the business graduate from Westminster University, who dispatches bulk orders from her Vapi farm to cities in Gujarat and Maharashtra. “Our family business is 50 years old, and it was time to get online. With a Facebook page dedicated to Shah Mango Farms, Priyanka has ensured that her 50-acre estate, which also grows chikoo and litchi, delivers great deals to the consumer.