Would you like to start a farm? Today’s CLIDEMY Poll
I spent the whole day yesterday at an organic farm about 90 Kms from Chennai, as part of the experiential tours we are attempting at CLIDEMY.
It helps that I also coordinate the Chennai Climate Consortium, and this platform helped me gather about 30 folks from Chennai spend their entire day at an organic farm which is an integrated livestock & organic crops facility, watching cows moo, making seedballs, planting pumpkin seeds and generally hanging around nature.
While about half of the crowd had some connection to agriculture (professors, researchers, organic biz entrepreneurs), half of them were from engineering and IT/software backgrounds – the cubicle dwellers.
Interestingly the founder of Akshayakalpa Organic(Shashi Kumar), the company that runs and manages the farm, a prominent organic dairy brand in India, himself was a software engineer at Wipro for 17 years (a “coder”, in his words), before he switched to organic farming & dairy full time, with the objective of making agriculture a respectable and attractive business for future generations.
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View full playlistI spoke to some of the folks with engineering or software backgrounds, curious to know what brought them out of their Saturday couches to make the trip to a farm and spend a day walking around, dirtying their hands, being at the mercy of the sun god’s vagaries (who was, mercifully, quite pleasant yesterday).
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A bit of a surprise for me, really.
But then, the white collar crowd that came yesterday perhaps does not represent the crowd in general, or represents a very small percentage.
All the above ruminations, on a lazy Sunday, beings up the CLIDEMY Poll question for today, especially for white collar professionals:
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Poll by: CliDemy – the Climate Academy – ?? ???? ???????? & ??????-??? ???? ?? ????????? ????????? ??????? ????????? ?? ? ??????? ?????? ????????? ?? 2030. Help us do that!
Farm trip courtesy: Vachana Shetty | Chandan Raghothama
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