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1000 petal lotus A Rare 1000 petal Lotus blooms in Kerala; Read Inside to know more By : Aishwarya R Nair, Noida Date : 15th July 2020 Ganesh Anandha krishnan is happy at his Tripunithara house to witness the first blooming of the one thousand petal lotus. During this time of the pandemic, Ganesh was confused about whether this rare lotus will bloom in Kochi’s tropical climate, which is an adverse environment for it. Hobbyist and lotus hybridiser Ganesh said to Times of India that he is on cloud nine because this one thousand petal lotus does not even bloom in the cooler northern climes. According to the report, the lotus was discovered by Daike Tian, professor of Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences in China in 2009. Ganesh said that Daike had gifted him this plant. He shifted to Kerala eight months back, though he had brought the plant two years back to his house in Tripunithura, where he keeps many lotus plants in small tubs on his house terrace. He had been

  Know how a dropout came up with the idea of ‘Fertiliser Gun’ to reduce labour.  By : Aishwarya R Nair, Noida (10th July 2020)  Potkuri Mahesh with Fertilizer gun Potkuri Mahesh is a young farmer from Ergatla Mandal in Nizamabad district, who puts together a simple device to dispense fertilisers on standing crops. He calls it the ‘Fertilizer Gun’. In these days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a major labour shortage in the district, and dispensing fertilisers, particularly for maize, is a labour-intensive exercise and expensive too. Generally, adding fertilisers to crops is the most tedious task, but Mahesh has made easy with the help of ‘Fertilizer Gun’. In a media interaction, Mahesh said that nowadays, most of the farming activities are mechanised. However, there are some jobs like dispensing fertilisers which still needs to be done manually since it has to be added at the root of the crop. Following the nationwide lockdown, the labour demand has gone hig

Pratap with his drone 22 Yr Old Farmer’s Son makes Drone out of Junk; Appointed as DRDO Scientist by PM Modi By : Vivek Verma, Noida ( 9th July 2020)  22 year old Pratap has achieved what many can only dream of. Winning first prize at a drone competition in Japan to getting honored by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this young boy is an inspiration to our youngsters. PM Modi has asked DRDO to absorb him for his inventions in drone technology. The accomplishments of Pratap have been talk of the town & have inspired many youngsters to achieve their dreams. However, the path for this success was not easy for Pratap & was full of difficulties. Beginnings : Pratap native village is Netkal in Malavalli Taluk of Mandya district in Karnataka. Marimaddaiah, his father is a farmer & Savita, his mother is a housewife. Earnings of few thousand rupees in a month was just enough to feed the whole family. Since his childhood, Pratap was fascinated by helicopters,

Telangana Farmer Know How This Telangana Farmer Becomes an Inspiration to all Cultivators of India Date : 29th June 2020 by Preetam Sharma, Noida Started Natural Farming, now called as Zero Farming, in his farmland has become role model of excellence for the whole state of Telangana. He started the organic farming movement in the village with the help of a non-governmental organisation, CROP (Centre for Rural Operations Programmes Society) which has inspired all the 52 families in the village and they shifted to natural farming, without using Ponnam Mallaiah, a 76-year-old farmer from Enabavi village of Warangal district, Telangana, who pesticides or chemicals not only this now many farmers of the state are following him up. His efforts have also made Telangana become the first organic village in the way of natural farming. Mallaiah started the practice of Zero Farming from the last 20 years. He started this practice because when he saw increased the application of chemica