Success Stories

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Gagandeep Singh's Success with Capsicum in Lalliana village Punjab

Gagandeep Singh is carrying on the family tradition of growing capsicum using the STEP System in his village. He has just picked the first crop of the season and he is proud of the fact that he has been able to harvest a consistently high quality crop which fetches a premium.

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Narinder Mehta's Paddy Field

Narinder Mehta is a progressive farmer from Village Khai, near Ratia in Haryana. He prefers to cultivate rice and wheat in rotation on his 40 acre farm in the kharif and rabi season respectively. For the past few years he has been growing the high yielding rice variety Pusa 44 which normally yields anywhere from 34 - 38 quintals per acre.

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Success Story of Amaninder Singh

Amaninder Singh is a very enterprising farmer from village Agaul near Nabha in Punjab. He cultivates about 21 acres of land in which he grows about 4.5 acres of chillies and paddy in the remainder.

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Success Story of Yadwinder Singh

Yadwinder Singh a progressive farmer from village Dingo in Punjab had experienced the destruction of his wheat crop last year due to unseasonal rain.

 

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Success Story of Sadhu Singh

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.

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Success on Cabbage and Cauliflower

When farmers take ownership of a new idea or technology, then it means they have really benefited from it and have taken it to heart. This is an instance of how our STEP System is now being popularized by farmers themselves.

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Successes of Farmers with STEP System in National Media

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.

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Success Story of Bali Singh

Bali Singh was on tenterhooks, victim of a family dispute, his inherited land under litigation with his own kith and kin, this experienced farmer had in despair approached a large farmer, Krishan Karwa from his village for help. In the summer of 2011, Krishan asked Bali Singh to take over an manage his decrepit 7.5 acres orchard of Kinnows (Mandarin oranges) to maintain on a profit sharing basis.

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Success Story of Jeeta Singh

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.

 

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Success Story of Om Prakash Niwag

Our success on Kinnow continues with the stirring experience of Om Prakash Niwag, a progressive farmer from Golluwala village in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. Diagnosed with cancer and a diabetic to boot, he was desperate with his failing health and the precarious condition of his orchard spread over 25 bighas (about 15.6 acres).

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