Agriculture Success Story of farmer Swapnil Shivaji Mali These farmers earn millions annually by growing their own pomegranate and processing it on their own machine: We have told you earlier that in today’s time, the youth of the country are actively participating in the work of farming. Not only that, they also do agriculture with their methods and new-age technology, which gives them millions and crores of profit. Even today, we are going to introduce you to one such young farmer who started the cultivation and processing of pomegranate with his own technology and is now earning millions. We are talking about Swapnil Shivaji Mali of Maharashtra.
Agriculture Success Story: These farmers, after growing their own pomegranate, earn millions annually by processing on their own machine
Swapnil Shivaji Mali has made agriculture a source of employment after completing his studies in agricultural science. Today, Swapnil Shivaji Mali is earning lakhs of rupees from pomegranate cultivation with the help of new tricks and techniques. Swapnil Shivaji Mali, a resident of Hatid village in Sangola taluka of Maharashtra’s Solapur district, planted 450 pomegranate saplings in about one and a half acres after completing his studies in agricultural science. Initially, they used to get money at the rate of 70-80 rupees per kg in the local market. Gradually, he realized that even after hard work, he was not getting the proper price for his crops.
Agriculture Success Story of farmer Swapnil Shivaji Mali
After this Swapnil Shivaji Mali decided to start manufacturing products like anardana, juice, syrup and jelly. Swapnil built a machine that set up a Pomegranate Seed (Anardana) processing unit, capacity is 2 tonnes per day. The amazing thing is that they break the spoiled fruit of pomegranate in it and make a variety of products and send it to different areas of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Bihar. The amazing thing is that Swapnil started farming from the age of 18. He also did farming while studying.
Swapnil Shivaji Mali has been farming since the age of 18
Agriculture Success Story of farmer Swapnil Shivaji Mali While talking about this, Swapnil Shivaji Mali says that his mind was already in agriculture. He also used to cultivate pomegranate, brinjal, capsicum earlier. Swapnil Shivaji Mali said during an interview that it was a matter of college days. We all went somewhere to roam. Cashew sawing machine was seen there. Seeing this, we also thought of making a machine. To extract pomegranate seeds, we made a similar machine, which is now being used. The advantage of this machine was that the pomegranates used to throw away the grains in order to extract them. He also started working for us.
How does this dream machine work
Swapnil Shivaji Mali explains about this that two cutting blades and a mesh have been installed in the machine. The blade breaks the pomegranate. After breaking, the pomegranate seeds fall down through the lattice and the peels separate. During this, pomegranate juice also comes out, which is also used. Pomegranates that have been damaged in the machine can also be used easily. The seeds are packed after drying in sunlight or machine light. The advantage of drying and selling seeds is that it does not spoil for a long time. Raw fruits need to be stored in cold storage, but not for seeds.
Pouring eight to nine thousand fruits of pomegranate daily
Agriculture success Story After drying the seed it does not deteriorate for at least four to five months. These pomegranate seeds are used in making products like Pomegranate Pickle, Pomegranate Chaat Masala, Hajmola. Swapnil said that two and a half lakh rupees were spent on making the machine. Later many farmers have also tried it. Explaining the difference between breaking a pomegranate with a machine and a hand, Swapnil said that by hand we used to break four to five thousand fruits in a day, but now we break eight to nine thousand fruits of pomegranate daily.
25 years old Swapnil earns more than 50 thousand rupees
Swapnil further states that when we used to break pomegranate by hand, the earning of the month was around 25 thousand. Instead of using the machine, now more than 50 thousand rupees are earned in the month. Pomegranate farming takes place twice a year. Apart from this, today 25-year-old Swapnil also cultivates drumsticks. Youngsters like Swapnil Shivaji Mali are becoming an expectation and precedent for the farmers who are turning away from farming and khati in the coming days.
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