From cotton to chilli and now mango, a farmer-breeder’s long harvest
Kongara Ramesh at his mango orchard in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: PAUL NICODEMUS Kongara Ramesh left school after Class VIII. He never returned to formal education. What he did instead, across six decades of quiet, persistent enquiry, is harder to summarise: cotton hybrids, chilli varieties, homeopathy, and now, in a two-and-a-half-acre orchard on the outskirts…