Rafello Khongwar is a 30 years old graduate student from the Indian district of Ri-Bhoi. Agriculture, vegetables, fruit crops, piggery, poultry and fishery compose his six farming systems. After running his own enterprise for the last four years, he could earn a rich dividend from kharif vegetable cultivation as well as from poultry farming and, as a record, he earned a net profit of 68,935 IRP in seven months (around 1,145 USD) out of the raising of 2,400 birds.
In spite of the unemployment pressure, Rafello did not succumb to it and quite intelligently opted for the farming profession where his father and forefathers did have expertise. However, he didn’t stick to his parental land for developing an integrated farming system; instead, he selected nearly 5 acres of land in a village and finally purchased the land by taking a loan from his relatives.
