Engineer quits robotics job for farming, saves 300 native seeds

After working as a robotics engineering teacher in Mumbai, Honest Raja returned to his village in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, in 2022 and began collecting native seeds to save disappearing biodiversity. Today, he grows and propagates around 300 varieties on his family's two-acre farm, including 16 types of brinjals and 60 types of gourds and sells seeds across India