JUNE 201819MIKLENS BIOOFFERING AN ARRAY OF TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERIOR AND CHEMICAL-FREE AGRI-PRODUCTSIndian Agriculture Industry is at a transformation stage. India has woken up to the concept of Resi-due Free Farming with not only the end consum-ers advocating for the same, but also the farmers in favour. Our agriculture sector is receiving the much required support from the government which acts as a thrust to bring about this trans-formation. Agriculture accounts for more than 15 percent of the country's GDP while about 58 percent of rural households rely on agriculture as their principal means of livelihood. However, while agriculture has been the backbone of human existence since time immemori-al, adoption of new techniques has always been a delayed process within the industry.With farmers having pre-conceived negative notions about modern methods, it is always a challenge at hand to convince the farmers using chemical inputs about its hazards and the damage it causes. The rampant use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers has brought about a decline in soil fertility and crop health across the world. This realization has marked the advent of organic farm-ing globally. With a vision to change the agricultural can-vas in India, Santosh Nair along with Dr. Nisha M. M, an industry veteran vested their ideas into shaping Miklens Bio, an agri-biotech start-up offering bio-based agricul-tural inputs that aid alternative, chemical-free farming.A seasoned industry professional with hands-on experience at banking and finance organizations like Merrill Lynch and HDFC, Santosh acknowledged tech-nology as the key aspect for the growth of agriculture in India and wanted to provide revolutionary avenues to the farmers to increase their productivity and also help maintain the ecology. "Having grown up in a mid-dle-class family, I always dreamed of rising my way up the corporate ladder at the best banking and financial institutions of the world, when I decided to exit the cor-porate life, it seemed irrational to everyone. The unend-ing potentials of agri-industry, the power of the microbes By Deepshikha Singh
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