Innovation has no age boundaries
An amazing story of a simple farmer from Erode District in Tamilnadu is good enough to convince all and sundry that age is no barrier to human mindset and new innovations.
Duraswamy a 63 year old farmer with no formal back ground academic education has come out with two inventions for air energized pressure cookers and a multi tasking steam boiler. However what stands out is his new crop theory of fresh coconut seedlings from old trees which has lead to annual output of 200-250 coconuts per annum right from third year instead of the traditional 100+ from the fifth year. Imagine the increase in revenue potential of minimum of I.Rs 10,000-15000 Rs per acre per annum with around 632,000 acres available for increasing the coconut production across Tamil Nadu leading to a whooping 600 crores of revenue increase to the simple farmers by making their coconut farms fertile using Duraiswamy's approach.
Goes to re enforce the theory that age is no barrier to new thoughts and sky is the limit for human innovation!
RK
Duraswamy a 63 year old farmer with no formal back ground academic education has come out with two inventions for air energized pressure cookers and a multi tasking steam boiler. However what stands out is his new crop theory of fresh coconut seedlings from old trees which has lead to annual output of 200-250 coconuts per annum right from third year instead of the traditional 100+ from the fifth year. Imagine the increase in revenue potential of minimum of I.Rs 10,000-15000 Rs per acre per annum with around 632,000 acres available for increasing the coconut production across Tamil Nadu leading to a whooping 600 crores of revenue increase to the simple farmers by making their coconut farms fertile using Duraiswamy's approach.
Goes to re enforce the theory that age is no barrier to new thoughts and sky is the limit for human innovation!
RK
posted by RK at 12:03 PM
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very interesting and fascinating.
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