Adilabad: Woman techie turns farmer to inspire youth
Adilabad: As a business analyst at a leading Information Technology (IT) consultancy of Hyderabad, this woman techie used to understand the needs of clients, besides involving in various other tasks assigned by her employer until two years back.
She is now reading the requirements of a wide-range of fruit, vegetable, flower crops and develops a special bond with cows as she passionately tries her hand at farming and rearing cattle.
Meet inspiring Enugula Sai Chinmayi, the daughter of farmer Mohan Reddy and Sujatha of Echoda mandal headquarters. She is now excelling in farming as she grows 30 flowers, 10 vegetables, five fruit, spice crops as intercrops in the space available in her father’s 6-acre mango orchard. She has become a role model to youngsters of the district by venturing into an unusual field for techies.
“When I was allowed to work from home, I used to discharge duties by sitting in the mango orchard. I was helping my father in farm activities and experimenting in agriculture whenever I got time. I realised farming was a viable field when I had to quit the job owing to the recession in 2019. I was encouraged by my parents to venture into it,” Chinmayi told ‘Telangana Today.’
The computer engineering graduate is raising vegetable crops such as Tomato, brinjal, lady’s finger, beans, fenugreek, coriander and spinach in the space found in the rows of the mango farm. She is growing fruit crops namely guava, custard apple, papaya, jamun, oranges, flower crops Rose, chrysanthemum, basil, marigold, tulip, lily, night-flowering jasmine, East Indian rosebay or pinwheel flower, peach leaf bellflower, Pink Jasmine, Dutch rose, etc. Similarly, the 29-year old business analyst is rearing rabbits, ducks, chickens and two jersey cows using innovative methods and setting an example to others in finding alternative income sources.
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