[www.keralites.net] People who quit corporate jobs for farming tell us why they switched fields :-Less money, more smiles [3 Attachments]

 

People who quit corporate jobs for farming tell us why they switched fields :-Less money, more smiles

How has the career shift changed their lives? "I have gained back my smile and lost a few kilos,

More people should quit the rat race and take to agriculture, the backbone of India's economy. This is the message these people want to convey.

Take T Arumugam. Despite being the first graduate in his family, with five siblings, he gave up his full-time job with an NGO to try his hand at livestock rearing and growing wheat.

Vinu Kurien quit his bank job after a 12-year stint. He is now farming cardamom in Kerala. What drove him to give up stable employment and try his luck with the high-risk farming business? "The corporate rat race was getting overheated. Stretching work hours began to eat up my holidays. So, quality time with family was something that I could see only in movies," says Vinu. Likewise, for 

Ramkumar, who gave up his high-flying IT job as a senior software consultant at Credit Suisse, Singapore. The promise of a peaceful life amidst verdant fields drew him to agriculture.

Ravikumar Ramasamy, who was working as a textile engineer, now grows lemon on about one-and-a-half acres of land, and grows coconut and banana trees too. He is also the proud owner of seven cows. His cousin Balashanmugam, an MCA graduate, quit his job with IBM, the global IT giant, to start his own farm.

Age has not deterred PS Subramani, who is in his late 50s, from taking such big risks. He gave up his lucrative job in Zambia in 2007 and opted to grow coffee in Coorg — he had inherited part of a plantation from his father, he later added to it. 

Full article in the link below 

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/mutual-funds/charm-in-their-own-farm/article6799320.ece

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