Every day, Sudhanshu Kumar drives down to his farm, parks his bike in the shed, and sits in a control room built on the premises. He makes himself comfortable, and picks a movie to watch for the day. Once he’s made his choice, he presses a button beside a panel on his chair, which begins a process of irrigation and fertilisation on his fruit orchards, while he settles to watch the film. By the time the movie is complete, irrigation on his 35 acres of orchards is complete. Sudhanshu gathers his belongings, switches off the system, and heads home.
With minimum monitoring and no worries regarding a workforce, Sudhanshu, a farmer from Samastipur, Bihar, earns lakhs through farming by using technology, and then selling quality produce. On his 60-acre farm, he has grown 28,000 trees of mango, banana, guava, Jamun, lychee, Brazilian sweet lime, and dragon fruit, among others, fetching him a revenue worth Rs 80 lakh a year.
Sudhanshu has been practising farming since 1990, and has always…
