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Innovative Farming Success Story

This farmer from Tapasihalli in Doddaballapur taluk earns Rs. 22 lakh (USD 30,000) per year from his 2.1 acre farm through innovative multi-cropping methods. He grows over 30 varieties of crops including tomatoes, areca nuts, ginger, roses, and capsicum. He also breeds 250 chickens and dogs to supplement his income. Through efficient use of space, irrigation, and organic manure, he is able to be highly profitable while farming a small amount of land.

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Innovative Farming Success Story

This farmer from Tapasihalli in Doddaballapur taluk earns Rs. 22 lakh (USD 30,000) per year from his 2.1 acre farm through innovative multi-cropping methods. He grows over 30 varieties of crops including tomatoes, areca nuts, ginger, roses, and capsicum. He also breeds 250 chickens and dogs to supplement his income. Through efficient use of space, irrigation, and organic manure, he is able to be highly profitable while farming a small amount of land.

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K A R N A TA K A

This farmer earns Rs. 22 lakh a year from 2.1 acres


of land

profitable venture:Innovative drive and constant experimentation with multi-cropping methods have helped H. Sadananda
of Tapasihalli in Doddaballapur taluk to reap a rich harvest. | Photo Credit: Photo: K. Gopinathan
!

April 19, 2010 00:00 IST


Updated: September 22, 2010 13:09 IST
B.S. Satish Kumar

H. Sadananda grows 30 varieties of crop and even breeds dogs

BANGALORE: At a time when there is a strong perception that farming is not a


profitable venture, this farmer from Tapasihalli in Doddaballapur taluk has
created waves by earning a profit of about Rs. 22 lakh a year from merely 2.1
acres of land.

It is his innovative drive and constant experimentation with multi-cropping


methods that have helped 51-year-old H. Sadananda to reap a rich harvest.

He cultivates nearly 30 varieties of crop on his land, including tomato and areca
on half an acre each which yield him Rs. 2 lakh and Rs. 50,000 respectively.

Ginger is cultivated along with areca in the plantation, and it yields him about
Rs. 70,000 a year. Mr. Sadananda has also made space in his areca plantation for
rearing 250 Giriraja hens which he sells every three months to earn about Rs. 1
lakh a year. The poultry droppings are valuable manure for the areca plantation
while agricultural waste is used as feed for the birds.

He has planted about 2,000 rose cuttings on three-fourth of an acre, which


fetches him about Rs. 4 lakh a year, and has set up a greenhouse on one-fourth
of an acre for cultivating capsicum and high-quality rose alternatively.
Capsicum, cultivated for about six months, yields him about Rs. 5.4 lakh while
the rose variety that replaces capsicum for the next six months gets him about
Rs. 2.5 lakh a year. A small vegetable garden, a fish-rearing pond, coconut and
jackfruit trees on the periphery of his land, in addition to coffee plants, papaya,
sapota and lime trees also find a place. His cows produce 80 to 100 litres of milk
a day.

Manure

Manure comes from vermicompost and the slurry from a gobar gas plant. A tiny
pond is filled with azolla plants which is a good cow feed.

Mr. Sadananda, who depends on borewell for irrigation, has installed drip
irrigation system for the entire land at a cost of Rs. 50,000 (excluding subsidy).
Drip irrigation allows me to irrigate my entire land even with four hours of
three-phase power, he says. Besides, it prevents weeds and also saves him about
Rs. 400 a day in labour costs.

Interestingly, he also breeds Rottweiler and Great Dane breeds of dogs to earn
Rs. 1.2 lakh a year.

He has been honoured with prestigious awards by the Union Ministry of


Agriculture. Several agricultural scientists, farmers and VIPs from India and
abroad visit his farm.

Innovative ideas

Mr. Sadananda says that his farm income increased after he adopted innovative
ideas provided by the Department of Biotechnology's Bio-Resource Complex
project taken up in his village. He can be contacted on 9342022146.

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