Rajasekhar Angadi: Thanks to Hard Efforts, Meticulous Planning and Grapes; From Just Two Acres to 300 Acres
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. ...