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How a retired banker piped a canal to green his village
April 28, 2021
From ‘no rain, no crop’, the village is reaping it big now
A retired banker’s passion has turned a once-dry village green, harvesting two-three crops a year.
S Venkateswara Reddy was wondering what he should do after retiring from State Bank of India (as an Assistant General Manager). “I thought I should take up farming, continuing our family legacy,” he says.
The biggest challenge, however, was that his village,Mallepalle, like hundreds of others in the drought-prone Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, had no assured water supply.