A young woman farmer is renewing hill farming‪.‬ Failure to Success

Hi friends in today's episode of failure to success I have spoken about how one positive action can bring changes in lives of many people. I have also spoken about human values and importance of passing on these values to the next generation. 

I have narrated a story of young woman farmer, Ranjana Kukreti from Uttarakhand who is a change maker & renewing the way hill farming is done. While a section of Indian millennials, driven by food safety and sustainability concerns, takes on urban farming with gusto, aided by agri-tech start-ups, Kukreti, a post-graduate in rural development, has resolved to be a farmer, to feed the country’s growing population. In the climate-controlled and meticulously monitored environment of her polyhouse in Dehradun plains, the rice cultivator’s painstaking efforts yield a steady supply of vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumber, bright green spinach and chillies.In her constant endeavour to learn something new and experiment with the latest science-based techniques, Kukreti picked up new rice farming skills, at the International Rice Research Institute‘s (IRRI) headquarters in the Philippines last year (2018) as part of an initiative by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). She was one among a group of eight participants from across the country.

Her objective is to combine traditional knowledge with scientific techniques is bringing in a new dawn for hill farmers of her village in Uttarakhand.