India is a nation of farmers, where nearly 60 percent of people in India earn their living through farming. However, what many miss out on is also how India has the world’s largest livestock population.
Despite this, many farmers focus on crops as they cannot afford to feed their livestock and, at times this livestock is malnourished and are often subjected to deficiencies.
Aiming to solve this problem, two students from the TERI School of Advanced Studies have developed a community level solar-powered hydroponic fodder unit that can grow rich, nutritious green fodder with very little water and soil-less farming technique, capable of increasing crop yields by sixfold compared to traditional approaches.
For this, they were also awarded a bronze medal in the Grand Final of the Efficiency for Access Design Challenge. We got to interact with the masterminds behind this, Souryadeep Basak and Lavkesh Balchandani to understand what ignited this idea in their minds.
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