"In today's materialistic world, this time-honoured vocation is losing to trendier opportunities, with the young abandoning lands tilled by their forefathers," the New Sunday Express quotes Shashi Kumar as saying.
That's why Kumar quit his IT job to found Akashayakalpa Organic in 2010, which aims to "reinforce the glory of agriculture, while placing the farmer at the center of it all," the Express quotes Kumar as saying.
To that end, the company, which was founded by a veterinarian and social entrepreneur in 2010, works with farmers to improve cash flows, as well as soil management, while exposing them to new training and organic farming techniques, which in turn result in better harvest and revenues.
Its model dairy farm, for instance, produces high-quality milk while maintaining high milk yield and good health, the New Sunday Express quotes Kumar as saying.
In fact, the 900 farmers on the dairy farmmostly in their 30scan eat and drink water as they please, as the milk is packaged and processed at the company's state-of-the-art facility, which houses open paddocks, a milk processing and packaging center, and farmer training centers.
The company also sells green fodder, silage, dry fodder, minerals
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