Organic Foods are increasingly becoming popular especially in cities and metros, but organic farming has remained a small subset in the agriculture sector. Gratitude Farms in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu has been one of the pioneers in this field and they have worked out the process flow from farm to market. As a yeoman service the Farms are training veterans in organic farming. We have highlighted this second innings opportunity, as ex-servicemen can profitably make a success in this niche field after retirement.
For India to march ahead and be the third largest economy in next decade, rural India has to grow on par, if not faster than urban India. One of the most effective ways to achieve it is through rural entrepreneurship at mass scale. Nothing democratises wealth better than entrepreneurship. If done at scale, at micro-level in our villages, it can transform villages to become hubs of development. Any well-run rural program has in all likelihood two critical predictors of success:
