New Delhi, At present, the agriculture sector is growing rapidly. But today’s youth seem not to be much interested in farming. Of course, there are some young people who have taken up agriculture after completing their higher education despite earning lakhs of rupees. One such young man is from Himachal.
whose name is Mandeep. After completing his MBA, he started his career as a manager. After working in a senior position in a multinational company for five years, Mandeep decided to come to his hometown Solan with his family. After coming to Solan, Mandeep thought of cultivating the waste land.
That is, he wanted to do farming in a different way, not conventionally like other farmers. So he thought of turning to horticulture farming. Get an in-depth knowledge of agriculture – firstly, what are the seasons and weather like in Mandeep’s area? Got information about it. He then met a university professor to learn more about farming. After doing this, he decided to cultivate kiwi.
Mandeep read many books to get complete knowledge about Kiwi cultivation. He spent most of his time in the library. He also discussed agriculture with a university professor. After doing all this, he moved on to Kiwi farming. In 2014, after talking to the horticulture department of Solan, Mandeep started the work of creating a kiwi garden on 14 bigha land.
In this garden he planted advanced varieties of kiwi. Then it was time to get income from Kiwi. In 2017, he started taking online bookings on the website for the supply of kiwifruit. When was the fruit plucked by the buyer on this website? When was the box packed? Information including that was given. His business started to spread slowly.
It received orders for kiwifruit from states including Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana. It is to be mentioned here that at present Mandeep is cultivating Kiwi fruit with fully organic method. They themselves prepare compost and biofertilizers. So their kiwis fetch very good prices and are earning millions. In this way, Mandeep is earning up to 40 lakhs a year from his garden.SS1MS