The years of successful field development demonstarting the many benefits of our STEP System finally aroused the attention of India's leading newspaper the Times of India (TOI), the country's and the world's largest circulating English Daily. In 2015, when farmers in Punjab were driven to desperation by the whitefly menace on cotton and kinnow farmers were on the verge of uprooting their beloved trees, Sequoia reached out, providing solace and hope. This was frontpaged by TOI in two articles.

After his success with cabbage and cauliflower, Sadhu Singh has now become an ardent follower of our STEP System. The benefits this eco friendly system offers have never ceased to amaze him. His latest success has come about with brinjal.

Farmers in the village of Gihri Butter near Bathinda had traditionally grown green chillies for supplying to the nearby city. This crop was grown over 250 acres in this village but over the years, farmers faced the onslaught of deadly soil borne fungi which decimated their yields. They tried all possible fungicides available in the markets but the disease would recur in a more serious form after every application of chemical fungicides, this rendered the cultivation of this hitherto profitable crop, unviable. This saw the decline in acreages of chillies in this village to just 20 acres.