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MBA husband and CA wife learned to do farming in Gujarat, now Gujarat can learn
Ahmedabad – MBA and CA for the study of Business Management and Economic Policy. 33-year-old Lalit Deora has been farming since 2012 after doing his MBA.
wife’s responsibility
Lalit was married to Khushboo Deora of Pali city. Wife is CA. They are also doing farming. After marriage, the wife also does agriculture. He handles the work of a fragrance retailer from nursery retailing, farm house and nursery to other accounts. Keeps all counts. Dual responsibility with home. Women will be able to live comfortably.
farming business
Farm House, Hi-Tech Nursery, Polyhouse, Agro-tourism, Drip Irrigation System, Earthworm Unit, Fragrance Retailer. Under unfavorable conditions, unimaginable vegetables and other crops have been grown in desert areas with less water.
It is located near Surpura Dam, about 12 km from Jodhpur in Rajasthan. He was in top ten in MBA from Maharashtra.
It had nothing to do with agriculture.
learned farming
There were huge greenhouses and polyhouses on the way to Wagholi city for internship. which they considered tents. Then the farmers said that this is a greenhouse. Since then he has been interested in it.
no job
Two companies including ICICI decided to start farming by offering a job as a Security Relationship Manager with a salary of Rs 8 lakh.
inspired by gujarat
Lalit started visiting Gujarat before starting farming in Jodhpur. He says, “I went to Gujarat and saw that big companies in metro Ahmedabad city are earning lakhs of rupees from vegetable production. They don’t even have much land. One to two bigha land is being cultivated with modern method. Horticulture crops and protected agriculture companies were doing it. That’s where I decided to take up farming.”
400 meters of land
The family was surprised when Lalit showed interest in farming in 2013 after completing his MBA in marketing and finance. Traditional crops were grown in Lalit’s ancestral farm, but there was no water. The father had asked Brahm Singh for only 400 square meters of land out of 12 bighas of the family.
Failure
Green House started farming in Jodhpur in 2008, but was unsuccessful. This failure was due to the unfavorable climate. The officers of Horticulture Department were given training simultaneously. Learned the nuances of agriculture and horticulture in the research center for a month. He met many professors.
learned farming
Learn how plants grow, what diseases occur, how to protect them from diseases. There all the science of plants was realized. They understood that plants had the same demands as humans, even though they did not speak.
starting with shadenet
Lalit Deora first grew vegetables by establishing Shednet House in his farm. The polyhouse moves slowly. Cucumber production started by taking grant from Horticulture Department. He was constantly in touch with the agriculture officials.
Cucumber earning 13 lakhs
The climate of western Rajasthan was not conducive to nursery and cultivation, but Lalit has set a record by cultivating 28 tonnes of cucumber in half an acre. Seeds for cucumbers were obtained from turkeys. A total of 28 tonnes of cucumber was produced in the year 2015-16. Four lakh rupees were spent in this. The first farm alone made a profit of Rs 13 lakh.
vegetables
He emphasized the importance of vegetables in agriculture. Cucumber, red, yellow and green capsicum, tomato etc. started growing in the greenhouse in the field. The profit in the field of agriculture was increasing day by day.
Now also cultivate papaya, pomegranate and strawberry.
agricultural school
There are also units of agricultural engineering, where small and large equipment are also made. Organic farming is on the rise to reduce the use of chemicals.
1 crore curve
Starting the nursery in 2018, it has 500 plants of different species. One of the state-of-the-art nurseries in West Rajasthan. The nursery had a turnover of Rs 23 lakh to Rs 30 lakh initially. Then there was a turnover of 60 to 80 lakhs and now last year one crore.
While giving the plant to the customer, he tells about the salinity of the plant, water, sunlight and medicine.
15 to 20 people work.
research
Lalit developed plants and grasses by the method of drip irrigation. Thanks to this technique and hard work, the whole area was filled with greenery.
This project was worth about one crore rupees. The three or four companies before him did not succeed.
tomato
Three lakh rupees spent on tomatoes made 50 percent profit. Received eight to nine lakh rupees.
Benefit
In the year 2018-19, the turnover reached 35 lakhs with a profit of 40 percent. Profits on a turnover of Rs 60 lakh increased by 25 per cent to Rs 65 lakh.
project found
Many government schemes are being received. The horticulture work at IIT Campus, Karwar, Jodhpur was achieved through a project of Tata Company. In the year 2020, Jodhpur IIT Campus got the task of making it green, which was around Rs 83 lakh. Nursery plants are taken from here from many other parts of the country.
floriculture in the desert
Marigold flower seeds were sourced from Kolkata and planted here, planted in the open, making a profit of Rs 50,000.
vermicompost
Vermi compost plant has been installed in the field, they sell manure for about one lakh rupees. They also make organic fertilizers themselves. He has been given many awards by two Chief Ministers and institutions.
