Just two years ago, Ratha Majhi was at his wits’ end trying to eke out a decent living from his modest vegetable farm. "It did not matter how long I spent at the farm," he recalls. "Even after borrowing 54,000 rupees (1,200 dollars), my trying days seemed never-ending."But since then he says his life has changed, adding with pride, "The farm is now my own patch of green paradise."
It’s all thanks to a simple and cheap micro-irrigation tool.