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Progressive farmer

Mohammed Yousuf

Mr Chintala Venkat Reddy, a farmer based in Hyderabad, exhibiting the wheat crop that he has grown on his farm in Alwal on the western border of Secunderabad. This is the first time that wheat crop has been grown in southern India, that too with a bumper yield of 5.65 tonnes a hectare. He has adopted an eco-friendly cultivation, replenishing old soil with a new layer every year. Mr Reddy is set to get a patent on the new mechanism he has devised to rejuvenate the infertile land without using fertilisers.

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