19-YO’s Low-Cost, Seed-Sowing Innovation Eases Back-Breaking Task for Farmers

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By Aarushi Agrawal INNOVATION | VILLAGES
Gorre Ashok, a young inventor from Telangana, comes from a farming family. His innovations aim to solve the plight of farmers.
At 17, Gorre Ashok needed Rs 42 to get from Telangana’s Devarakonda to Nalgonda so he could prove his mettle as an innovator at an exhibition where original creations were presented. The district science officer would be present, and after three years of staying away from innovations and focusing on his studies, Ashok was now setting out toward something he’s always been passionate about.
“I didn’t have the money so I borrowed exactly Rs 42 from my friends,” he says in an interview with The Better India. “I didn’t have good clothes either, so I borrowed those from my friends too,” he adds.
At the exhibition, his innovation was a set-up that showed the effects of smoking on the lungs. He had taken a transparent plastic bottle, filled it with water, and created holes at the base of the bottle and on top of the lid. Through the top hole, he inserted a lit cigarette, and let the water flow down through the bottom hole, showing how the addiction dehydrates a body as the smoke fills up the lungs. He then removed the bottle cap and placed tissue paper at the mouth of the bottle. From the hole at the bottom, he breathed into the bottle, causing the smoke to collect upward and stick to the tissue, leading to a change in its colour. “That’s how it sticks to the tissues in the lungs,” he says. “Everyone appreciated me for making this.”
He won first place for this innovation. However, the primary thought in his head wasn’t one of excitement but of concern. He had no money to get back home. “I was preparing to ask the district science officer if I could have Rs 42 to go home,” he recalls. It was then that the officer and a few teachers present at the exhibition came together and gave Ashok a sum totalling Rs 3,500, as a show of support toward him. The next day, his story was in the local papers with a photo of him and the officer.
Today, the innovator has eight innovations to his credit, which include a seed sower that he sells for Rs 850 apiece.
He claims to have helped 86 farmers so far.

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Born to a farming family in Anjalipuram, a small village in Telangana, Ashok was always interested in innovating. As a child, he used to make toys from pipes and other waste material he could find. “We didn’t have enough money to buy toys, so I started making them myself,” says the now 19-year-old.
The opportunity to showcase his first real innovation came when he was in class 6. The local school he was studying at was set to participate in a district-level science competition and had chosen Venkatram, a science student, to represent it. He, however, wasn’t keen on going. So Ashok’s biology teacher told him to go instead, using the selected student’s name. Here, Ashok won first place for his hydraulic JCB crane. “I got a certificate but it’s not in my name. After that, my interest in inventions increased a lot.”
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