These People Quit Their High-Paying Jobs To Start Farming And Now Earn Crores

He reached the village for farming after 17 years of working in a? corporate. There was loss of crops, but he did not lose hope and compiled his experience in a book Moong over Microchips: Adventures of a Techie-Turned-Farmer. A chapter of this book, published in 2018, 'The Call of the Soil-A Scent of Rice' was made part of the English textbooks of class XI by the Maharashtra State Board.

Iyer grows seasonal vegetables, two indigenous varieties of rice (red and brown), sesame seeds, groundnut, mustard and basil leaves. Talking to TOI, Iyer said, "I asked my wife one day, can I become a farmer. She replied 'If 65% of the people of the country are farmers, why not you?"

Hailing from Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, Ravi did his MBA in the year 2011. After studying, he got a job in LNT. Then he started a job in Kotak Mahindra. However, he was not happy with his work. He started to feel that he could not be satisfied in a 10-to-7 job. He did not consider himself productive. It was from here that he started thinking about Plan B.

According to Ravi, there was a lot of terror of Nilgai in the village. These cows were ruining farmers' crops. Farmers were upset in this situation. His crop was being wasted. Ravi started thinking about crops. He thought of farming that Nilgai or other animals could not waste.

Ravi planted marigolds in two bigha fields. His idea was a hit. The crop was ready within two months. This was his first experiment. It costs about three thousand rupees from nursery to fertilizer to plant a bigha marigold. But, after ripening this crop gives Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000. Earning is more during the season.

Hailing from Jind district of Haryana, Neeraj Dhanda used to work as a developer, but he was not pleased with the urban job. Amidst all this, one day he went to Raipur in Chhattisgarh in connection with work where he learnt about the special species of guava.

After resigning from his job, he planted 1900 plants of Thai variety on his ancestral 7 acres land. He got about 50 kg of fruits from one plant. Initially, Neeraj started selling these guavas directly to the mandi. But soon he opened the company named Next Form and started retailing online and started getting orders from Delhi, Panchkula, Gurugram, Ghaziabad and up to Chandigarh. Today, his guava are sold for up to 500 rupees per kg.

Arvind Sai, a resident of Sirimkela, a small village in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, used to work in a multinational company in Pune. But he did not feel good in the job, due to which he quit and came back to the village.?

Seeing his father doing traditional farming in the village, he thought of using technology to make it a means of earning. He started farming and used technical and scientific methods. He started farming maize and pigeonpea. Within three years, money started coming in and Arvind earned one and a half crore rupees. Along with this, he also gave employment to about 20 people of the village.

Prateek, a resident of Bhopal, worked as a product manager in a bank. He had an annual package of Rs 15.5 lakh but he loved farming. For which he quit this job and started organic farming on his 5.5 acres land.

Prateek earns a profit of Rs 1.5 lakh annually from every acre. After continuous losses in chemical farming, he decided that he would do organic farming. In two years, Prateek wants to take this profit to Rs 4 lakh per acre.

Shah decided to leave his job and return to his homeland. After coming here, he did a course of about one and a half months related to farming and then started organic farming on about 10 acres of land near the highway in Nadiad, Gujarat.

Currently, Vivek Shah grows crops like millet, wheat, potato, banana, papaya, berries, coriander, and brinjal in his field. He has also grown special water-clearing plants in his farm including making ponds. Vivek's partner Vrinda says, "One of the biggest challenges of farming is attack by pests." To deal with this, we use multi-cropping and inter-cropping. We also grow basil and lemongrass'.

In 2013, Manikandan Pattabiraman quit his IT job and began his gardening journey with his father. They grew tomatoes, chilli, okra, amaranthus, beans and coconut trees. ¡°I initially got into gardening when I was still a kid in the fourth grade. My family moved into a house on the outskirts of Chennai with ample space on the rooftop, and the ground. My father and I got into gardening actively, he told The Better India.

In 2016, Aniish Shah quit his corporate job of 16 years, and decided to pursue his passion in farming. He grows groundnuts, wheat, turmeric, black-eyed beans, corn, pepper, mangoes, and cashews in his 30 acres farm. ¡°I had worked in marketing and sales and was earning well, but after a point, I realised that I was doing the same thing in different organisations. I was living out of a suitcase because of all the travelling, and I was tired of the rat-race. So I decided to pursue what I love¡±, he told The Better India.