My Bucket List

Every living person should have a mission to work for and certain other things to make him happy. As a part of it, I m jotting down my bucket list not because I am dying sooner of some diseases. Well, the list goes like

1. Build a  Green Home in 10 acres. Living between the fresh air and true nature with access to everything in the world.
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3. Para Sail, Scuba Diving, Hot Springs.
4. Camping for 3 days with no electronic equipment.
5. Foreign trips to 10 countries [ Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, New Zealand, Dubai, Canada, South Africa, Japan, China ].
6. Own a Tesla Car.
7. Visit few Himalayan passes
8. Visit valleys of Himachal Pradesh in cold winter.
9. Learn cartoon trolling over internet.
10. My Girl's wishes: New York, London, Caves, North Pole
11. Fishing in 5 different places .
12. Sleeping , watching Aurora Borealis in Finland
13. Journey in Transcontinental Railway

Very sadly, I haven't done atleast one of it. I am still 27 & I have long way to go

My Life's mission

I am very much afraid to post my Life's mission in a public domain. But, if I am afraid to let the world know. I am damn afraid of a lot of things. I should also not be hiding, what I really want. So, here goes the list

1. I wish to make a Green Village with a population of 10,000 and make it the most cleanest village of the world.
2. I wish to convert 300 acre barren land to cultivable land.
3. I wish to start GREEN Industries employing 1000.
4. I wish to start a school [I3], where knowledge is shared in an uncomparable way.
5. I wish to empower farming making him earn 20k/month.
6. I wish to make the transportation very cheap
7. I wish to build cold storage units.
8. Vertical Farming
9. Get a child prepare for world class sports event from Siddi community

Making a living from Solar Energy

Having an engineering background, numbers speak to me more than anything else. Here is a rough calculation from some learnt facts.

1 Acre = ~ 4047 metre square

           = 63m * 63m.

Lets assume, as farmer has over an acre of barren land. He tries solar installation in his field using 1/10th of his holding size i.e. 400 metre square [lenght =20m, breadth =20m].

1KW of solar panel costs ₹60,000/-.

60KW of solar panel costs ₹36,00,000/-.

The iron stand, Wiring system, Inverter adds to the cost, which might another ₹20,00,000/-

So, the total cost shall be  ₹80,00,000/-

This kind of solar installation will generate  60*4 = 240KW/day &. 87,600KW/year.

In common man parlance, 1KW = 1 unit, which can be sold a 4 rupees to DISCOMS.

So, 87,600*4 = ₹3,50,400/year.

With costs coming  down and efficiency of panels going up. I believe, there is a great way to make money for farmers.

MNRE provides 30% capital subsidy on capital expenditures for rooftop solar systems for both commercial and residential entities for systems up to 100 kW. The government also provides loans at 5% per annum for 50% of the capital expenditure for 5 years tenure for both commercial and residential entities. Commercial entities can claim either capital or interest subsidies. 

Is Earning more than ₹10 Lakhs from Farming from a Hectare a dream ?

Every urban citizen wants to eat. But, very few among the same wants to farm. I think, its because people might think

• Its labour intensive.
• Its getting dirty.
• Its rural job.
• It pays less salary.

But, the power of making more money will attract nearly all human beings from every corner of the world. Ain’t it ?

Presumption: People make meagre amount of money by farming. True to a very large extent. To break this myth, we bring you three most inspired stories.

1. In 2012, a farmer from Nalanda district, Bihar had an yield of 22.4 tonnes of paddy rice per hectare using System of Rice Intensification methods.
2. In 2014, S Sethu Madhavan from Alanganallur village, Tamil Nadu who had a record yield of 24 tonnes of Paddy per hectare using the System of Rice Intensification Methods.
3. H. Sadananda, 51 year old farmer from  Tapasihalli Village in Doddaballapur taluk, Karnataka had made a profit of ₹22 Lakhs from less than a hectare. Read More
4. Sisil Chandran, farmer from Kulathoor Village in Neyyattinkara, Kerala cultivated capsicum and cucumber and reaped a profit of over ₹1 Lakh in 1 month using smarthouse polyhouse, a high-tech mode of vegetable cultivation a technology developed by C-DAC. Read more.
5. T. Ravindra, farmer of Sultanpura village, Chitradurga Taluk, Karnataka reaped a profit of ₹12 Lakhs by growing Bhagwa variety of pomegranates in his 5 acres. Read more
6. 3 farmers from Atpadi village, Sangli Taluka, Maharastra and  Khumbalmer village, Bhanaskantha district, Gujarat have saved  more than 1 Crore in their bank accounts having only 8 acres of Pomegranate Orchards.Read more Read more 2
7. How can a Farmer make ₹10 Lakhs from solar power sitting idle for whole year. [ Initial Investment 50Lakhs]. Read More

Interesting Facts

1. Average production of Paddy yield is 2.6-2.9 tonnes per hectare.
2. The Agricultural Income is tax free.
3. Pomegranate is an arid area crop which needs little or no water

Aspirations of Inspired Indian

1.  What if If a farmer can do Vertical Integration i.e. Producing, Taking it to Markets, Selling.
2. What if, if a farmer can sell Pomegrantes in European Market