While many may want to spend retired life in luxury, only a few may opt to toil away in the soil. Working as a bank manager all his life, K Rajmohan decided to devote his retirement to agriculture.
“Even though I didn’t have any prior experience in farming, with patience and practice, cultivating fruits became easier for me,” Rajmohan says, adding, “I have changed the conception that grapes grow only in hilly areas by cultivating them on my terrace in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district using grow bags.”
In 2015, Rajmohan began his journey with 20 grow bags. Today, he has fruits and vegetables growing in 200 grow bags on his 1,250-square-foot terrace.
During the initial days, he cultivated vegetables such as tomato, cucumber, pumpkin, which gave him a good yield.
Today, Rajmohan’s garden includes snake gourd, coriander, chilli, cabbage, cauliflower, bitter gourd, ginger, turmeric, wild turmeric, bush pepper, groundnut, brinjal, spinach, beans, ivy gourd, ber apple,…