MBA Young farmer’s pomegranate orchard is ready to earn gold on Hills

Dry mountains can spill out gold by hard work and perseverance. These lines are not of some movie script but reality. These are Ankur Thakur's lines, a young farmer of Bnail village of Jamta, Himachal Pardesh.

By the efforts of Ankur, here today a pomegranate orchard is ready to earn gold. Instead of running after a job after completing MBA, Ankur decided to gardening near the home.

Ankur himself made the barren land with hoe and cultivated a pomegranate orchard on the mountain. His hard work has paid now. In the orchard harvest has come. MBA degree holder Ankur Thakur has set an example for the entire region by raising an orchard on waste land.

By looking at the dry mountain soil everyone can have an idea how hard is was. Today each and every blow of hoe is ready to pay Ankur's hard work in the form of pomegranate fruit.

According to Ankur Thakur he has maintained half an acre orchard. Even in drought conditions pomegranate gave a bumper crop.

In this fierce heat where people are longing for a drop of water, farmer Ankur Thakur has raised the crop of pomegranate by carrying water on his back.

 Ankur said he carries water from half a kilometer everyday. Not only pomegranate but Plum and lechee harvest is also well ready.

He also said that he is willing to give information about the pomegranate yields to other young farmers.

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