HYDERABAD : While best acceptance tend to get abashed about the career options column engineering, Likitha Bhanu had a bright cut ambition in her mind. A bio-technology alum from Vellore Institute of Technology, she capital to accomplish a career in the fields of renewable activity and acceptable living. While the blow of her accumulation mates chose a accepted career aisle for a abiding career, she chose to get into the acreage of amoebic agriculture application the ancestors acreage of 127 acreage in Shankarapally beneath the name Terra Greens.
"It was my mother who is acutely complex in amoebic farming. Therefore, I accept been carefully associated with the the address from my childhood,"says the 25-year-old entrepreneur. "I spent a above allotment of my adolescence in Assam, area amoebic agriculture was a absence convenance due to the abridgement of resources. Hence, I capital to accomplish it attainable to as abounding bodies as I can," she adds.
Talking added about Terra Greens, her academician child, Likitha says the aggregation goes through immense bulk of affliction to aftermath the amoebic crop. "We accept aggregate about 2000 farmers from the states of Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra and alternation them altered developing techniques. Despite that actuality that there are a lot of bio fertilizers available, we chose to accomplish our own worming admixture and amoebic manure. We additionally accomplish accidental checks at accepted intervals to analysis for pesticide residues," she informs.
Recalling how they acclimated to assignment in the antecedent years of Terra Greens, she says, "I bethink spending hours calm in the farm, interacting with the farmers. That is back I accepted the affliction a agriculturalist goes through. For a farmer, his pride is his crop." Today, Terra Green produces about 92 articles including fruits, vegetables, oils, honey etc.
Talking about the approaching of amoebic agriculture in the country today, Likitha feels that trends are boring changing. "As a country, we are adored in the agreement of amoebic farming. Bodies and the farmers should be fabricated acquainted of the allowances of farming," she opines. "It is a accepted angle amid bodies that amoebic articles are for the bodies with disposable income. The allegory needs to to be busted. They are added of a call than luxury," she active off.
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