Farmer swaps pomegranate for drumstick, builds ₹1.15 crore biz

When costs of pomegranate cultivation continued to rise due to frequent diseases and profitability reduced drastically, farmer Sagar Yelpale replaced his family's orchards in Solapur, Maharashtra, with drumsticks. Now, the sale of drumsticks and their seeds together generates a profit of over ₹80 lakh on an annual turnover of ₹1.15 crore