Youth coming out of IIT and IIM started startup for farmers, earning crossed Rs 100 crore

After doing B.Tech from an institute like IIT, every youth dreams of doing a great job with a good package, but there are some people who do not believe so. The names of these people are Tausif Khan, Nishant Vats, Harshit Gupta and Ashish Singh. These four are friends. Have graduated from institutes like IIT and IIM. Worked on an excellent package but something else was going on in the heart and mind. Just because of this he decided to leave his job and turned towards farming. Yes, these four friends left their jobs in a multinational company and started a start-up ‘Gramophone’. This start-up provides farmers with information about modern farming techniques, effective farming and measures to increase production, how much medicine should be used and when. Let us know from them how these four friends decided on this journey…

Started research during studies
According to Tausif Khan, founder of Gramophone, he had decided during his studies that he had to do something in the field of agriculture. However, at that time it was not clear to him what to do. Yes, research was started in this direction. Tausif and his friends used to talk to the farmers.

This is how ‘Gramofan’ started
According to Tausif, he established an office in Indore in the year 2016. During this time, Nishant Vats, Harshit Gupta, Ashish Singh were associated with him. Gradually a team of 50 people was formed. After doing complete research related to agriculture in the village, all four friends together started a start-up and named it ‘Gramophone’.

Farmers get these benefits from start-up
Farmers get many benefits from start-ups. If there is any disease in the crop, then how much pesticide or fertilizer should be given to it. Apart from this, they also provided other information. Apart from this, a call center was also established to solve the problems of farmers.

Started start-up with Rs 6 lakh
Tausif says that in three years this startup, which started with Rs 6 lakh, has crossed the Rs 100 crore mark. Till now more than 2.50 lakh farmers have got the benefit. Every day about 3 thousand farmers contact for various solutions, the farmers who do not use smartphones have been given the facility to provide solutions by giving missed calls even from basic phones.

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