Fruits of Success !!
Continuation of Changing Food Habits of India(http://agribiznlife.blogspot.com/2011/01/changing-food-habits-of-india-do-we.html) Farmer Vishal Satpude (Fictitious) lives in a 40,000 sq ft farm house in Telangwadi near Solapur, 30 years ago a dream, now a reality. Over the period, Satpude borrowed money from friends and bought a few farmyard animals. In 1985, he purchased 27 acres of barren land. Using drip irrigation, Satpude cultivated pomegranate, and his toil has yielded his dream come true. Today, his orchard extends to 300 acres, and he owns, in addition to the farm house, a cold storage and packaging house worth crores, a few cars and much more. (Over the last few years, pomegranate area is replaced by Bananas, as the story progresses we know why) None the less, Satpude's transformation is the stuff of case studies in B-schools of India and abroad. But more than that, it is representative of a silent fruit revolution in the state's drought-prone areas, and some of...