Empowering Women: Kukadi Mahila Swayam Sahayata Samuha

Palanduh Farmer Producer Company (FPC) represents a remarkable example of collective success in agriculture. Established to address the challenges faced by onion farmers in Vijayapura, Karnataka, the FPC has united over 1,000 farmers, collectively cultivating 12,000 acres of onions. Supported by ABI ICAR-DOGR, the FPC has developed a robust value chain...

Farmer Collectivization: Palanduh Farmer Producer Company

Palanduh Farmer Producer Company (FPC) represents a remarkable example of collective success in agriculture. Established to address the challenges faced by onion farmers in Vijayapura, Karnataka, the FPC has united over 1,000 farmers, collectively cultivating 12,000 acres of onions. Supported by ABI ICAR-DOGR, the FPC has developed a robust value chain...

From Dream to Reality: Pratil Langote’s Journey in Agri-Entrepreneurship

Pratil Langote turned his dream of entrepreneurship into a successful agribusiness venture. Recognizing the potential of value-added products, he focused on processing onion, garlic, moringa, and beetroot into powders and strips. Mentorship from ABI ICAR-DOGR guided him through business planning, product development, and market entry...

Empowering Farmers Through Innovation: The Story of Shreya Trading Company

Vivek Bhujbal transformed his passion for trading into a thriving agribusiness. Initially focused on fruit and vegetable trading, Vivek identified an opportunity to process surplus farm produce into value-added products. With the mentorship of ABI ICAR-DOGR, he launched Shreya Trading Company, specializing in onion and garlic powders, moringa powder, and coriander products...

Transforming Garlic into Gold: Alunt Agro Products Pvt. Ltd.

Sunil Shamrao Ingawale’s Alunt Agro Products introduced black garlic to the Indian market, leveraging its nutritional benefits. Extensive research led Sunil to develop a unique fermentation process, creating a product rich in antioxidants. ABI ICAR-DOGR provided critical support through technical guidance, lab testing, and patent facilitation...

Reviving Tribal Heritage: Vanastha

Vanastha, founded by Sushma Shinde, revives the traditional use of the mahua tree among tribal communities. The tree’s declining utilization due to its association with liquor production prompted Sushma to innovate, creating Ayurvedic products such as mahua ladoos and diabetic-friendly rice varieties...

Revolutionizing Onion Storage: Godaam Innovations

Kalyani Shinde’s Godaam Innovations addresses the pressing issue of post-harvest onion losses. Growing up in Lasalgaon, Asia’s largest onion market, she witnessed the hardships caused by spoilage and price fluctuations. Motivated to find a solution, she founded Godaam Innovations in 2018...

Innovating Onion Processing: The Story of Satpro Food Processing

Swati Maichael Gaikwad, a dynamic entrepreneur from Daund, Pune, established Satpro Food Processing (OPC) Pvt. Ltd. with support from the Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) at ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Pune...

'One Variety One Village': Empowering Marginalized Farmers

Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra one of largest onion producer districts in Maharashtra. However the productivity of onion is low. Scheduled cast farmers were doing the traditional farming without adoption of improved technologies which led to low productivity in Onion....

Bhima Kiran - A Success Story

Bhima Kiran, a light red onion variety with good storability developed by ICAR-DOGR, has transformed onion farming in Maharashtra and adjoining states...

Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav Impact

Under ‘Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav’ scheme, DOGR scientists guided farmers of the adopted villages. Shri Ravindra Namdeo Gorde, farmer of Gosasi village, District Pune was one of them. He has narrated that he got tremendous increase in onion bulb yield after applying ICAR-DOGR technologies.

Bhima Shubhra - The King of Onion

Shri Namdeorao Adhau from Akola achieved record yields with Bhima Shubhra, the white onion variety that impressed even the Hon'ble President of India...

Bhima Purple Garlic Revolution

Mr. Vishnu Jare's success with Bhima Purple garlic has inspired cultivation across 600 acres in multiple states, earning farmers over ₹1.0 lakh/acre...

Transforming the livelihood of tribal farmers of Nandurbar in Maharashtra through onion and garlic cultivation

Amar Jeet Gupta, S.S. Gadge and Major Singh ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Rajgurunagar-410 505 Pune (Maharashtra). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

the tribal farmers had established NESU Parisar Farmers Producer Company at Nimboni, Nandurbar and registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GOI with the support of ICAR-DOGR through Tribal Sub-Plan. Socio-economic status of selected farmers under TSP have been significantly improved due to the intervention of ICAR-DOGR through TSP scheme....

Demonstration of kharif onion cultivation in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh: A Success Story

Major Singh, Amar Jeet Gupta, S.S. Gadge, Rajeev Kale, N. Rai and Govind K. Singh

Initially, several interaction meetings were conducted with progressive farmers in collaboration with Seva International and GK Research Development Foundation. An Onion Awareness Camp was organized on 12 December, 2017 to create awareness and enhance the knowledge level of farmers in Mirzapur, Varanasi, Ghazipur and adjoining areas. The goal was to replace low-yield local varieties (10-15 t/ha) with high-performance ICAR-DOGR varieties like Bhima Super and Bhima Dark Red, while introducing modern techniques like raising early kharif onion through sets technology......

Onion Variety ‘Bhima Shakti’ - A Success Story

Amar Jeet Gupta, V. Mahajan, K.E. Lawande, S.S. Gadge and Major Singh

Due to good bulb storability of Bhima Shakti, farmers can earn more income by selling stored bulb when market price become high. Most of the farmers are often earning a net profit of more than Rs. 70,000-80,000 per acre by cultivating Bhima Shakti. Farmers have shown interest in this variety owing to its uniform neck fall, attractive red big size bulb, high bulb yield and good storability. ......

Bhima Kiran - A Success Story

Amar Jeet Gupta, V. Mahajan, K.E. Lawande and S.S. Gadge

Several demonstration have been conducted in different part of the country on onion bulb and seed production of Bhima Kiran including more than fifteen demonstration under tribal belts of Nandurbar and farmers were benefited because Bhima Kiran was found best for bulb storage up to five month during rabi. Hence, farmers have shown interest in this variety and DOGR have already sold 23.22 q seed of Bhima Kiran. This variety is now grown over 1000 acres in different states. Most of the farmers are often earning a net profit of more than Rs. 1.0 lakh per acre by cultivating Bhima Kiran.....