Kerala Scientists Use Mushrooms & Coconuts to Boost Incomes of 1600 Farmers!
Using their decades of experience, 75-year-old Rohini and her 84-year-old husband have dedicated their retired years to the welfare of Kollam's farmers. The kind of heroes India truly needs!
84-year-old RD spoke to The Better India (TBI) about why their sole focus is on small farmers who toil endlessly to earn a marginal profit at the end of the agricultural cycle.
"The costs of cultivation have increased in the past few years, and so, it is the small farmers, who rely on their family members for labour and cannot afford to hire farm labourers, who suffer the most. We wanted to help them secure higher profits in their fields, so their succeeding generations keep up the legacy and continue farming, rather than moving abroad," he said.
Agriculture constitutes 13 per cent of Kerala's GDP, and rice plays a major part in this sector. Although the state grows about 600 varieties of rice, it experiences steady growth in the price of the staple.
This is not because its farmers are profiting from the hiked prices but because about 91 per cent of the rice in the state has to be imported from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana..
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https://www.thebetterindia.com/186432/kerala-couple-scientist-mushroom-coconut-boost-farmer-income-india/
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