# The Plate

> ThePlate.in is India's digital platform for latest news, reports, information and analysis on food and agriculture.


## Posts

- [Watch: The millionaire grape farmers of Nashik](https://theplate.in/watch-the-millionaire-grape-farmers-of-nashik/): Grapes of Glory: How Nashik's Tiny Farmers Created a ₹2000 Cr Export Giant
- [Odisha's rice that can beat diabetes and malnutrition](https://theplate.in/odishas-rice-that-can-beat-diabetes-and-malnutrition/): In Odisha, scientists are biofortifying rice to fight malnutrition without changing what people eat. If it scales, the model could transform public health across the Global South.
- [This Maharashtra firm is bringing native seeds back](https://theplate.in/this-maharashtra-firm-is-bringing-native-seeds-back/): Working closely with tribal farmers, this Maharashtra-based collective is saving native seeds from extinction
- [Harrisons Malayalam's award winning tea](https://theplate.in/harrisons-malayalams-award-winning-tea/): The Arapetta Estate’s tea has a unique character, floral notes due to its location and the traditional processing methods perfected over decades.
- [Watch: This is the most expensive floral perfume](https://theplate.in/watch-this-is-the-most-expensive-floral-perfume/): What links Tamil Nadu’s jasmine farmers to high-end French perfumes? A quiet global supply chain built on fragile blooms.
- [Why precision agriculture is India’s best bet against climate uncertainty](https://theplate.in/why-precision-agriculture-is-indias-best-bet-against-climate-uncertainty/): As climate change disrupts India’s fields, precision farming offers a roadmap to feed the future sustainably, smartly, and at scale.
- [How citizen science is revolutionizing water management in Indian agri](https://theplate.in/farmers-as-scientists-how-citizen-science-is-revolutionizing-water-management-in-indian-agriculture/): India’s water crisis isn’t just a story of scarcity. It’s a story of who gets to measure, manage, and make decisions. Across the country, farmers are stepping up as citizen scientists, using simple tools to reshape how we understand and protect groundwater.  
- [Jasmine’s journey: From the fields of Madurai to French luxury perfume](https://theplate.in/jasmines-journey-from-the-fields-of-madurai-to-french-luxury-perfume/): The Madurai jasmine is the best in the world. It ends up in your favourite luxury perfumes like Dior, Guerlain and Tom Ford. Here's how. 
- [How polyhouse farming in Rajasthan's desert is turning farmers into millionaires](https://theplate.in/how-polyhouse-farming-in-rajasthans-desert-is-turning-farmers-into-millionaires/): The 500-odd farmers of Gurha Kumawatan, a village in arid Rajasthan, are now millionaires thanks to polyhouse farming. Their hard work, innovation and unlimited ambition offers a path to prosperity for others in India. 
- [Watch | India's Dairy Dilemma: From White Revolution to Warnings of Decline](https://theplate.in/watch-indias-dairy-dilemma-from-white-revolution-to-warnings-of-decline/): India's dairy sector, once a shining example of agricultural success, is facing a crisis. Declining growth rates, low farmer incomes, and quality concerns threaten to undermine the White Revolution.
- [From economics graduate to farming trailblazer: Anushka Jaiswal's inspiring journey](https://theplate.in/from-economics-graduate-to-farming-trailblazer-anushka-jaiswals-inspiring-journey/): Anushka Jaiswal, a 28-year-old farmer from Lucknow, is inspiring others in the region with her innovative precision farming techniques. Discover her journey from an economics graduate to a trailblazing farmer, empowering women and inspiring sustainable practices.
- [What is the Agri Stack?](https://theplate.in/what-is-the-agri-stack/): Agri Stack is a governance model that promises to bring inclusivity and transparency in agriculture, like Aadhaar did for direct benefit transfer in distribution of welfare schemes.
- [From Udaipur to Okinawa riding on orange peel](https://theplate.in/from-udaipur-to-okinawa-riding-on-orange-peel/): Narayan Lal Gurjar is a young innovator from rural Rajasthan whose work has global impact. 
- [West Africa's bitter chocolate harvest is a sweet deal for farmers in south India](https://theplate.in/west-africas-bitter-chocolate-harvest-is-a-sweet-deal-for-farmers-in-south-india/): Indian chocolate farmers are making an unexpected profit as cocoa production in West Africa plummets. 
- [Drone duo that heals crops with pictures from the sky](https://theplate.in/drone-duo-that-heals-crops-with-pictures-from-the-sky/): With hyperspectral images of farm captured from drones, BharatRohan, an agritech startup, is helping farmers diagnose and treat diseases and pest attacks early. 
- [The nutmeg’s purse](https://theplate.in/the-nutmegs-purse/): Nutmeg farmers in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, are profiting from the power of collectivization. 
- [The young entrepreneur from Jharkhand who wants to simplify spiky jackfruit for India](https://theplate.in/the-young-entrepreneur-from-jharkhand-who-wants-to-simplify-spiky-jackfruit-for-india/): Globally, jackfruit is a superfood, and a hot new vegan substitute for meat. India, the home of jackfruit and its largest producer should look to profit from the trend. 
- [Tamil Nadu acid limes that basically offer a good deal without getting neighbours salty](https://theplate.in/tamil-nadu-acid-limes-that-basically-offer-a-good-deal-without-getting-neighbours-salty/): Puliyangudi, a town in southern Tamil Nadu, produces the sourest of limes highly valued by food processors. 
- [How an Indore agripreneur couple is using moringa to fight malnutrition](https://theplate.in/how-an-indore-agripreneur-couple-is-using-moringa-to-fight-malnutrition/): Agripreneurs Pallavi and Sanjay Vyas are betting big on moringa or drumstick as a health and nutrition supplement. 
- [This young woman CEO fights hard to make farmers richer in Tamil Nadu’s remote corner](https://theplate.in/this-young-woman-ceo-battles-hard-to-make-farmers-richer-in-tamil-nadus-remote-corner/): Bavithra Jagatheshkumar, the CEO of a farmer producer company in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district, is helping farmers turn profitable in the face of massive challenges.  
- [MS Swaminathan was an inspiration and hero to scientists the world over](https://theplate.in/ms-swaminathan-was-an-inspiration-and-hero-to-scientists-the-world-over/): Rajeev Varshney, a globally renowned Indian agri scientist, writes a personal tribute to his hero and mentor Dr MS Swaminathan
- [MS Swaminathan: architect of Green Revolution; the greatest Indian since Gandhi](https://theplate.in/ms-swaminathan-the-architect-of-green-revolution-the-greatest-indian-since-gandhi/): MS Swaminathan who helped India fight hunger and revitalize its agriculture is arguably the greatest Indian post-Independence   
- [This small town in Karnataka is the vegetable nursery of India](https://theplate.in/this-small-town-in-karnataka-is-the-vegetable-nursery-of-india/): Ranebennur, a nondescript town 300km north of Bengaluru, is the most important hub of hybrid vegetable seed production in India. 
- [How plums can be a juicy business for India's Himalayan farmers](https://theplate.in/how-plums-can-be-a-juicy-business-for-indias-himalayan-farmers/): Delivering delicate plums from the orchards of Himachal to consumers in southern India is a race against time.
- [How 27 techies who wanted to change Indian agri ended up creating a Rs 250-cr organic startup](https://theplate.in/how-27-techies-who-wanted-to-change-indian-agri-ended-up-creating-an-organic-startup/): Making Indian farmers richer and agriculture ecologically sustainable is at the heart of organic dairy brand Akshayakalpa's business
- [A new Amul-like collective farm movement called FPC to feed India’s future](https://theplate.in/a-new-amul-like-collective-farm-movement-called-fpc-to-feed-indias-future/): Nearly 75% of Indian farmers own less than two acres of land. Farmer producer companies owned and managed by small farmers offer a way out of chronic distress. 
- [The real reasons why tomato is suddenly so expensive in India](https://theplate.in/the-real-reasons-why-tomato-is-suddenly-so-expensive-in-india/): India’s wild tomato or onion price fluctuations make farmers and consumers cry every year. Solutions needn’t involve rocket science. 
- [A Kerala entrepreneur’s jackfruit startup that's fighting India’s diabetes ‘pandemic’](https://theplate.in/a-kerala-entrepreneurs-jackfruit-startup-fighting-indias-diabetes-pandemic/): An ex-Microsoft executive has found a way to get healthy jackfruit into everyday Indian diet inspired by former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam’s one-line brief to him.   
- [Is 'cuddly' Amul the newest 'crony-capitalist' from Gujarat curdling India’s milk market?](https://theplate.in/is-cuddly-amul-the-newest-crony-capitalist-from-gujarat-curdling-indias-milk-market/): Populist, consumer-focussed subsidies are making several state milk cooperatives unhealthy. A cash-rich Amul could certainly benefit. 
- [How to feed the world’s most populous country: grow more or eat less?](https://theplate.in/how-to-feed-the-worlds-most-populous-country-grow-more-or-eat-less/): The answers from Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, two of the most important scientists of the 20th century, would have been very different, says their biographer Charles Mann.
- [A brief history of India's White Revolution: the story of remarkable individuals and collective spirit](https://theplate.in/a-brief-history-of-indias-white-revolution-the-story-of-remarkable-individuals-and-collective-spirit/): The story of India's journey from below-subsistence level dairy farming to becoming the world's largest milk producer.
- [India's White Revolution: from a trickle to Operation Flood](https://theplate.in/indias-white-revolution-from-a-trickle-to-flood/): The 220 million tonnes of milk it produced in 2022 is about 24% of the global output.
- [From providing oil to fibre to food, coconut is India's 'wish-fulfilling' tree](https://theplate.in/from-providing-oil-to-fibre-to-food-coconut-is-indias-wish-fulfilling-tree/): India is the world's Coconut Central. In 2022, it produced nearly 20 billion nuts or roughly a third of the world’s coconuts. 
- ['There is no onion deficiency in India, only a lack of vision and management'](https://theplate.in/there-is-no-onion-deficiency-in-india-only-a-lack-of-vision-and-management/): The government starts to panic when there is a slight increase onion prices, egged on by sensationalist media that plays up the "plight of housewives". 
- [India No.1: Turmeric, the golden allrounder spice](https://theplate.in/india-no-1-turmeric-the-golden-allrounder-spice/): India produces 80% of all turmeric grown in the world. 
- [Making millets mighty again](https://theplate.in/making-millets-mighty-again/): Indian government is making all the right noises about adopting millets. In the International Year of Millets, we look India’s challenges and policies needed to make this transition. 
- [Forget Bournvita, India has a far bigger sugar addiction problem](https://theplate.in/forget-bournvita-india-has-a-far-bigger-sugar-addiction-problem/): India produces way more sugar than it needs and eats more sugar than is healthy.
- [Re-evaluating Green Revolution: 'Why is Punjab growing rice when the state’s ecosystem is not suited?'](https://theplate.in/re-evaluating-green-revolution-why-is-punjab-growing-rice-when-the-states-ecosystem-is-not-suited/): 'While promoting rainfed and sustainable agriculture, lessons from the Green Revolution have to be kept in mind and rigorously followed'
- [India's food production could wilt in the heatwave](https://theplate.in/indias-food-production-could-wilt-in-the-heatwave/): As temperatures soar, milk, poultry and vegetable production gets impacted. This season's wheat quantity and quality may also come down. 
- [India No.1: Mango country](https://theplate.in/india-no-1-mango-country/): The mango is rightly considered the 'King of Fruits' in India.
- [India No.1: The homeland of banana produces an incredible variety of the fruit](https://theplate.in/india-no1-top-banana/): India is the world's largest producer and consumer of bananas
- [What was the Green Revolution, and does India need another?](https://theplate.in/what-was-the-green-revolution-2/): 'COVID 19 was a pandemic where nobody died of starvation in India. That was a remarkable achievement. That's the real success of Green Revolution.'
- [How a Nashik company owned and run by small grape farmers turned into a Rs 1000cr export giant](https://theplate.in/how-a-nashik-company-owned-and-run-by-small-farmers-turned-into-a-rs-800cr-export-giant/): Sahyadri Farms is a unique company that is owned, managed and run by a large collective of small farmers. Its export-oriented success has made farmers prosperous. Some are even millionaires.
- [What is Indian agriculture? And why you must care about it](https://theplate.in/what-is-indian-agriculture/): Nearly 40% of India’s entire geographical area and more than 80% of its water are used up by agriculture.
- [Why India faces a constant onion crisis](https://theplate.in/why-india-faces-a-constant-onion-crisis/): The wild fluctuations in onion prices is a pointer to everything that's wrong  about India’s agriculture economy.

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