The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
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The Man Who Created a Broker-Free Market for Farmers

The Man Who Created a Broker-Free Market for Farmers

Dec 27, 2017-- Prateek Sharma was born to a family of farmers in a village close to Bhopal, India. He started farming as a child along with his family but eventually left his village and accomplished a successful career in the city as a chief manager of a prominent Indian bank. What prompted him then to quit his lucrative job to return to tending to the earth as a community farmer? Sharma's inspiring journey as an organic farmer is one of initial failures, and his subsequent successes shaped by Sharma's values of sustainability, community, and justice. (12134 reads)


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