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Hi, I’m Krishna Dev.
I grew up in an agriculture family in Samastipur, Bihar — where farming isn’t a topic you read about, it’s the rhythm the whole year moves to. The sowing, the waiting, the weather that decides everything, the quiet economics of a season: I absorbed all of it long before I could name it.
What turned that upbringing into a genuine passion was geography — and good company. Our village sat just a few kilometres from Pusa, home to Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (RPCAU), one of the most storied names in Indian agriculture. (Pusa’s research roots run so deep that the original Imperial Agricultural Research Institute began there before moving to Delhi.) During my college years, that campus was practically my playground.
I don’t hold a formal agriculture degree — but I had something almost as valuable. While I was in college, several of my friends were pursuing their post-graduate studies in agricultural engineering at Pusa, and the hours I spent with those young agri-engineers were an education in themselves. Listening to them talk through soil science, machinery, irrigation, and the problems they were trying to solve — that’s where my curiosity stopped being casual and became real. It never switched off since.
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Why I started MittiTech
Years later, that curiosity has a direction. I’m an avid reader of new and emerging technology in agriculture — organic farming methods, precision agritech, AI tools reaching Indian farms, the equipment and ideas quietly changing how we grow food.
But I kept noticing a gap. Most of what’s written about agritech is either too generic to be useful, written for Western farms that look nothing like ours, or hype with no grounding in what actually works on Indian soil. A farmer in Bihar, Punjab, or Maharashtra searching for real answers deserves better than recycled noise.
MittiTech is my answer to that gap. The name says it plainly — mitti (soil) meets tech. This is a blog about emerging agriculture technology, written specifically for India, with a deliberate lean toward organic farming and advanced agritech.
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What I promise you here
- India-first, always. Every article is written with Indian conditions, crops, and realities in mind — not copy-pasted from abroad.
- Researched, not hyped. I cite sources, separate what’s proven from what’s promising, and flag uncertainty honestly. I’d rather be useful than loud.
- Practical over generic. Real angles, specific tools, honest trade-offs — the kind of thing I’d want to read myself.
- Safety first. I will never publish agronomic advice that could put a crop or a livelihood at risk without saying so clearly.
I write from genuine roots and genuine curiosity — not as a distant expert handing down verdicts, but as someone who grew up close to the land and to the science, trying to make the best of emerging agriculture technology understandable for the people it’s actually meant to help.
If that’s useful to you, you’re in the right place.
— Krishna Dev
Founder & Writer, MittiTech