IITian Chemical Engineer Girl Pooja Bharti Quit Her Job Of Rs 20 Lakh And Turned Towards Farming

Organic farming is popular among people nowadays, who are aware of agriculture opportunities and farming techniques, there are several stories we had heard where many youngsters are quitting their high paying jobs in big cities and adopting farming as their profession. They are not just giving rise to huge revenues but also contributing employment opportunities to many people.

Today’s article is about Pooja Bharti who resign from her high paying job of Rs 20 lakh and turned towards farming. She has not just attained success but also encouraging many youngsters to come back to their hometown and do farming in their own villages.

Pooja is natively from Nalanda, Bihar. After completing chemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, she got a job in an MNC through campus placement with an annual income of Rs 20 lakh. However, prevailing from a farmer’s family, Pooja always had an inclination towards agriculture and farming practices.

She noticed that her father could not earn as much as he would invest. She also saw that so many engineers, passing out from many reputed institutions, would either work at call centers or flee to complete targets of marketing firms just to earn barely Rs 20,000. The only reason behind this was - lack of employment opportunities in the country.

Looking at the agricultural industry, she felt upset looking at people splitting up the ways from farming and choosing other professions. She would always ask herself why youngsters don’t choose farming as a profession. All these questions would keep battling inside her head and finally one day, Pooja decided to go back to her roots.

In 2015, after working for 6 years, she resign from her job. She traveled to Assam and Madhya Pradesh to learn farming techniques from various agricultural scientists. After learning as much as she could, she left for Orissa to start farming and also encourage other youngsters to opt for this profession.

In an interview, she said -“I wanted to bring all those youngsters into agriculture who, even after having good degrees, are not getting proper jobs and are staying away from home. To eliminate this, I traveled across the country to understand and learn the basics of farming. I might have studied chemical engineering but today I am a successful farmer.”

She bought three acres of land and started organic farming. By her inspirational steps, many farmers in her area who used chemicals and pesticides for farming ultimately, moved to organic farming as well.

Pooja said - "They were not ready to understand but once I showed them practically, they learned. If you have your land then it takes very little investment for organic farming. All the basic elements that are needed for farming will come from your farm itself."

She confides that biomass which is the most important element is available easily. Apart from that, you need cow dung and jaggery to make Amrut mitti, the rich organic soil, which comes for a very less price. Pooja tells us that you get more growth from organic farming as compared to chemicals. According to her, to prepare Amrit mitti, you need water which is the mixture of one-liter cow urine (gomutra), one-kilo cow dung, 50 grams jaggery, and ten liters of water.

Currently, Pooja is running a campaign called Back To Village where she encourages youngsters to adopt farming and also trains them.

Young people like Pooja set a specimen in society. She left her job to adopt farming and help many farmers with various techniques related to organic farming. You just need to patient and believe in yourself not just to make a place for yourself but also to encourage other people and providing them with employment opportunities.

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