After he completed Class X, S. Dinesh of Suragondanahalli, about 150 km from Bengaluru, left his village to work in a public telephone booth in the bustling capital. For the next 10 years, he would change many jobs. But his salary grew minimally, from ?850 to a few thousands. “I worked hard, sometimes from 4 a.m. to late in the night, but at the end of the month, I was left with little money.”

That was when Dinesh noticed a news report on progressive farmers in Karnataka’s Mandya district, who had given up jobs in Bengaluru to take up farming in their village. “I was inspired by their story and decided to return to my village too,” he says.

Today, Dinesh’s business produces some 130 litres of organic milk a day and his bank account is credited with nearly ?1.2 lakh every month....Read more

Source web page:The Hindu