From rags to riches, for Shri Shankarbhai Vankar it has been a unique transformation. He recalls that he had no money to pay fees for his kids. Used to work as labourer in building construction he hardly earned Rs. 20 a day. Agriculture land which he owned produced millet and other conventional crops did not give sufficient returns. Horticulture came to rescue him, he got useful tips from the officials of Horticulture Department, encouraged him to adopt tissue-culture bananas. In the 1st year he produced bananas worth Rs. 60000/. His journey is from misery & pains to economic progress & happiness.

Plant Tissue-Culture ensures quality production, such plants has much higher the resistance power, it also gives more yield, every plant gives equal production, say around a bunch of 35 to 45 bananas on one Ged.

Plant Tissue-Culture is the production of exact copies of plants; it is a practice to propagate plants under sterile conditions, often to produce clones of plants. The techniques enable early maturity, emanating number of farmers to adopt Tissue-Culture cultivation.

Meet this enterprising and progressive farmer who has made good use of every-inch of farm-land to add his profits. On the border of his farm, he has cultivated hybrid (D&T Variety) Variety of coconuts. Around 40 coconut tress, one tree gives 250 to 300 coconuts each, if one fruit is sold at Rs. 5/, it gives 1250X40 = 50000/, as an additional income. He does not need to search the market. Nearby temples buys coconuts from him.

Krushi Mahotsav has made remarkable achievements in the last 5 years, teaching farmers to enrich the soil by recycling nutrients, usage of bio-nutrients, preparing their own-compost fertilisers, how to make good use of cultivable land, scientific methods of live stock management. Shri Shankarbhai, of Davalpura village of Petlad Taluka, has benefited by adopting animal husbandry, which gives him a regular income. He has his pucca-house, his own go down. He owns a car and a tractor. He is moving in Bhal–regions to spread the message of his success in small and marginal farmers.