Srimati Khuku Rani Jana is a farmer of Pathar Pratima block in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. She participated in the various agricultural training programs organized by SIDS and she was a beneficiary of our project. In 2019 she decided to grow six varieties of crops through the pre-monsoon dry sowing (PMDS) method in her leased land of 0.5 acres. Cucumber cultivation was done in a greenhouse with Natural Farming. Initially, she started the conventional cultivation of Paddy, Tomatoes, cucumber, etc. Later on, realizing the importance of diversified farming, she started cultivation of vegetables in her land. Taking advantages of our scheme, guidance and quality hybrid seeds provided by the SIDS started earning significant profits per season.

Now she cultivated vegetables like radish, chilies, beans, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, lady’s finger, etc. She invested a start-up capital of INR 20,000.00. She is currently actively involved in the Agricultural department for implementing modern technology in agriculture field. She has earned INR 1,40,000.00 without investment capital from this farming in a year. She and her husband work day and night to take care of the vegetable gardens and hence the cost of production is less, giving them better profits.

During her training period Khuku Rani received comprehensive knowledge and know-how ob business planning, marketing policy and monitoring. Khuku Rani is now a successful cultivator. She is motivating women farmer members of various Self- Help Groups to adopt new technologies. Being an aware and hard working farmer, she is an inspiration for the other’s farmers in the area.