Sathyashankar K, a commerce graduate, and his cousin Muralikrishna K, a mechanical engineer, decided to quit their jobs in the city and return to agriculture. After much planning, they launched Kalpa ...

Koppa, a small village in south Karnataka, is the only place where Narsimha Bhandari feels at home. After all it was here that the 53-year-old Narsimha was born and brought up. When the NDTV team met ...

Kerala Agricultural University has developed a power-operated coconut dehusking machine for large-scale use. The university has received a patent for the device, which was designed and developed by ...

Kalay-based welder Durgesh Chari usually starts his day by 8.30am at his fabrication workshop. However, of late, he has been busy building a unique device that has helped farmers skip the labour ...

Dehusking and shelling are important post-harvest activities in maize crop, predominantly done by women. These activities involve a lot of drudgery as these are done manually. Though hand operated ...