Facility manager quits job in Bengaluru, turns barren land into self-sustainable green farm in Polali in Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka

Solthadi Nanda Kishore Nayak was employed arsenic a installation manager successful a tech steadfast successful Bengaluru for 18 years. During COVID-19, helium decided to instrumentality to his autochthonal Polali colony successful Dakshina Kannada territory of Karnataka, leaving table jobs to instrumentality up farming connected onshore that belongs to his parents, but was near uncultivated.

 “I ne'er considered agriculture arsenic a vocation due to the fact that it did not look profitable. But during the lockdown, erstwhile radical rushed to banal up connected food, I realised however indispensable farming is for our survival,” says the 55-year-old, lasting successful his field. “I turned to integrated farming.”