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Bengaluru:  Rajasekhar Angadi of Mudhol town in Bagalkote district is an amazingly inspiring and unassuming, humble personality. His endeavours as a simple, ordinary peasant with a meagre land holding of two acres, increasing in leaps and bounds over a period of time to 300 acres, are a strange, unimaginable and astoundingly difficult to think of, but a true story to imbibe for all farm enthusiasts.  Maharashtra farmers become a role model:  Rajasekhar Angadi was studying Engineering when his elder brother, Mallikarjun Angadi, was farming after completing an Agriculture degree. At that time, grape cultivation was in huge demand as farmers in the North Karnataka region were just picking up the practice in the footsteps of their neighbouring Maharashtra. Interestingly, the growers of the Southern Maharashtra region are a role model to the adjoining Bagalkote and Vijayapura district farmers when it comes to progressive farming.             ...

Bengaluru: It was a weekday morning and a good number of vehicles of different types were parked in front of a house in Nagadasanahalli, before Rajanukunte on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Much before noon, many well-to-do farmers or landlords’ were found walking out from the big house enjoying the sumptuous non-vegetarian food, while many others kept on coming. This scene kept on continuing and looked like going for the remaining part of the day. The house in the centre of the attraction belonged to the horticulture pioneer NC Patel. Professional interaction: Nagadasanahalli C. Patel is a household name to all those in the old Mysuru region who take up horticulture too seriously and professionally. All those who had assembled were found busy interacting with one another on the stages of different crops in their fields, condition of the crop, expected yield, market situation and things like that all revolving around dry land farming. To an onlooker, it looked so interesting that althou...