Young Farmer Ajay Pagde Earns Lakhs from Papaya Cultivation on Small Land

• Ajay Pagde, an educated youth from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, successfully cultivated papaya on less than half an acre.
• He planted 600 papaya saplings and used traditional methods like farmyard manure (14 trolleys of cow dung) instead of chemical fertilizers.
• To conserve water, Ajay implemented a drip irrigation system, watering plants every other day.
• He used a natural pest control method, applying a mixture of jaggery and curd to protect his crop from mosquitoes and pests.
• Ajay has already earned 2 lakh rupees and expects another 3 lakh, projecting a total income of 5 lakh rupees from 20 guntas of land.

Why It Matters: Modern farming with traditional wisdom can yield significant profits, as demonstrated by Ajay Pagde's papaya success.