Founder, Khetiyaar
Founder of Khetiyaar, an AI farming app built in Gujarat for Indian farmers. Writes the guides here on crop planning, government schemes, market prices and farm economics — in Gujarati, Hindi and English.
A phone can give you your field's area in minutes, in bigha, vigha or acre. It can also give you a confidently wrong number. Here is how GPS measurement actually works, when to trust it, and the one thing it must never be used for.
Official mandi prices are free and public, published daily from APMC markets across India. Most farmers either never look, or look at the wrong number. Here is where the data comes from, how to read min, max and modal price, and why the highest figure is usually a trap.
PM-KISAN puts direct income support into the bank accounts of landholding farmer families across India, three installments a year. Here's exactly who qualifies, how the money reaches you, and what to check if a payment doesn't arrive.
A milch animal is often the largest single purchase a small farm makes, and the easiest to be cheated on. Listings make discovery far easier — they do not make verification optional. Here is exactly what to check, in what order, and the red flags that should end a deal.
Ask most farmers what last season cost them per acre and you get an estimate, not a number. The money was real; the record was not. Here are the six categories that capture almost all of it, the costs farmers routinely leave out, and the one hidden interest charge that never appears as interest.
A tractor sits idle for most of the year while the loan instalment does not. Custom hiring turns it into income — but only if your rate covers what an hour actually costs you. Most owners quote from what the neighbour charges, and quietly subsidise every job.
Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from the news into the field. Here is exactly how an ordinary Indian farmer with an ordinary Android phone can use AI for crop planning, disease diagnosis, irrigation timing and selling — step by step, in 2026.
Mustard is one of the most reliable rabi oilseed crops a farmer can grow, but two things quietly decide whether you get an average harvest or a genuinely good one: whether irrigation lands at the two moments the crop can't do without it, and whether aphids get caught early or late.
Gujarat's iKhedut portal carries subsidies for tractors, drip irrigation, godowns, tar fencing and well over a hundred other schemes. Most rejections are avoidable paperwork mistakes. Here is the full 2026 process, the documents that actually matter, and how to check your status.
Heat waves, sudden downpours, dry spells and cold snaps are all hitting harder and less predictably across India. Here are the real, low-cost jugaad techniques farmers already use to protect a standing crop in each of these four situations — not theory, the actual same-day and same-season actions.
PM-KISAN has been extended to 2030-31 with a ₹3.15 lakh crore outlay. But every cycle, lakhs of farmers find the money has not arrived. Almost always it is one of four fixable problems. Here is how to check your status and fix each one.
Tur is one of the most forgiving crops a farmer can grow — and one of the best for soil health — but pod borer and wilt can still take a serious bite out of yield if you're not watching for them. Here's how to grow it well from sowing to harvest.
