Watch this video to look how UP resident Sana Khan became her fascination with earthworms into S J Organics, a vermicomposting mission that sees an annual turnover of Rs 1 crore.
Sana Khan from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, earns Rs 1 crore by means of making vermicompost (enriched compost made with the usage of earthworms).
She says she had at all times sought after to be a physician, however did not transparent the doorway take a look at. It was once all through a final-year engineering undertaking that she were given an opportunity to paintings on a vermicomposting undertaking.
“All the way through the undertaking, I turned into thinking about and connected to the worms and concept — why no longer put in force this undertaking on a big scale? I began breeding those worms and started commercialising this product,” Sana tells The Higher India.
So in 2014, with investment from her brother, she arrange S J Organics vermicomposting corporate.
Even supposing her first industry style didn’t determine, she discovered an alternate and hired contractors to herald dairy and biodegradable family waste. Every batch of vermicompost at SJ Organics is lab examined to fulfill the certification requirements. The corporate additionally customises composts in line with soil necessities.
By means of 2020, the corporate gained 500 tonnes of waste and produced 150 tonnes of vermicompost per thirty days. These days, it has an annual turnover of Rs 1 crore a 12 months and gives employment to greater than 30 other people.
Below SJ Organics’ consultancy, greater than 100 faculties in Meerut have now arrange vermicomposting websites. In addition they habits coaching programmes for marketers.
Sana hopes that by means of sharing her wisdom of vermicomposting, she will popularise natural farming strategies, no longer simply in Uttar Pradesh, however in all places the rustic.
Watch this video to be told extra about her paintings:
Edited by means of Divya Sethu