Neha cultivates 16 acres of land, including vegetables in three acres in Noida, fruits in 12 acres in Muzaffarnagar and organic herbs in one acre in Bhimtal.
- She also sells her product online, with around 500 orders coming in every month, and Neha also sells her product online as farmers can take their produce to market.
Agra resident Neha Bhatia grew up in Delhi, after which she moved to London, where she did her Masters from the London School of Economics in 2014. After working there for years, she returned to India. In 2017, he started organic farming. Today he farms in three places in the country. Out of which he earns Rs 60 lakh a year and is making his life better by imparting farming training to many farmers.
Neha, 31, comes from a business family. He says, "I decided a long time ago that I wanted to do business, not just to make money, but also to have social benefits and social impact. It would also benefit people. "
Neha started organic farming in 2017, today she is farming on 16 acres of land.
Neha says, "After graduating from Delhi University, I joined a social organization. I worked on issues like education, health in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and other states. I moved to London in 2012. After that I returned to India in 2015 and started a social organization. She joined. She worked for about two years. "
She went to many villages, met people and understood their difficulties. "In the meantime, I have come to realize that the biggest problem for people is healthy foods, not just in the villages but also in the cities," he said. It also killed two of my friends. "
Neha says, "I had a lot of trouble after the death of my friends. At the end of 2016, I planned to launch the Clean Eating Movement so that people could get good and pure food. "If you want to eat right, you have to grow it. When grains and vegetables contain only chemicals and urea, how can it be better to eat them?"
Neha's husband Puneet has also quit his job and joined her, handling account and finance work.
Says Neha, "I had nothing to do with farming, I didn't even have a basic knowledge of farming. Before I started farming, I trained for 6-7 months, went to several villages, learned about farming, and then set up my own two acres in Noida. Started organic vegetable farming on the land. "
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He further says, "My first experience was not good. Most of the vegetables rotted, some of the vegetables were so large that we could not supply them in the market. People had to give them for free. The problem happened, but I did not give up. "My husband Puneet, who was a business consultant at a company, boosted my morale. A few days later, he also quit his job and joined me."
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Neha says, the second time we did farming, it was a good crop. We went to the market ourselves and imported our product, met people and told them about our vegetables. After a few days we started getting a good response, after which we expanded it. After Noida, farming started in two more places, Muzaffarnagar and Bhimtal.
In addition to organic farming, Neha also runs a school to teach farming to children.
Neha farms on 15 acres of land, including vegetables on three acres in Noida, fruits on 10 acres in Muzaffarnagar and organic herbs on two acres in Bhimtal. It grows about 50 vegetables. His team employs 20 people. A large number of farmers are also obese. He also works with a farming school and agro-tourism.
Neha says, "Most of the children in the city do not recognize vegetables. They do not even know that potatoes grow on the ground, in the soil, what their leaves look like, so we launched a farming school project some time ago. Children from different schools One day he comes to us and learns about farming. We have tied-up with more than a dozen schools. Next we want to take it to a bigger level. "
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At the same time we also organize agro tourism camps from time to time, invite people to their farms and feed them their favorite clean food to increase their interest in organic foods. A large number of people come to us from around Delhi and Noida, with their entire families. "
“We set up periodic agro tourism camps, invite people to our farm and feed them their favorite clean food,” says Neha.
He further said, "We have also launched an e-commerce website called Prodigal Farm, which sells products like vegetables, juices, pickles, sauces, spices, fruits, as well as products from small farmers who To kill