Aloe Vera cultivation in Jaisalmer makes a man a crorepati

Just imagine becoming a crorepati by cultivating an ordinary plant called aloe vera. That has actually happened to a man with a farmer background who had a government job. He was not satisfied and wanted to do something different and a visit to an agri expo in Delhi was the turning point in his life. He quit his job and started cultivating aloe vera and other crops on his 120-acre farmland and today boats of an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 to Rs 2-crore.
One of his customers is Patanjali Food Products Limited who use it for making aloe vera juice.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 12 July 2016.

He has now started his own company at Dhaisar, 45-Km from Jaisalmer and the product grown in Thar Desert has found a ready customer in Patanjali Food Products Limited. He had started with around 80,000 saplings of aloe vera and it has now increased to seven lakh. In last four months, he has dispatched 125-150 tonnes of processed aloe vera pulp to Patanjali factories in Haridwar.
Incidentally, the quality of aloe vera grown in desert area is of a high quality and, hence, there is a heavy demand for it in national and international markets. He got an idea to grow aloe vera, amla and gunda after visiting an agro fair. Usually, in desert areas, bajra, wheat, moong, mustard etc are grown, but he went in for the 'babie densis' variety of aloe vera on his 120-acre field. This variety has a high demand in countries like Brazil, Hong Kong and America too.


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