Aditi Mali started Mali Greens to increase awareness about microgreens and their nutritional benefits. With over 900 consumers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, she has grown and sold 50 kg of microgreens monthly.
When Aditi Mali, an urban farmer and visiting professor at Ahmedabad College, decided to connect her students to farming by making it practical, she faced a challenge. "I would ask my students to adopt and grow a plant, but by the time the course ended, the plant had only grown a little bit. Since it takes longer for a fruit or vegetable to grow, the activity was not as fruitful as I hoped," she shares in a conversation with The Better India.
This is when she discovered an alternative: growing microgreens. At the time, she was not aware that what began as a way to make farming more engaging for her students would later become a career path for her.
"Microgreen plants require less time to grow, which makes them an excellent option for my students to cultivate. However, as I began to explore them further, I realized they are nutrient-dense and are considered a superfood," she says. Currently, Aditi is the founder of Mali Greens, a business that offers over 18 different varieties of microgreens to more than 900 customers across the city.
Born and raised in a business family, Aditi says that she has been learning and doing marketing for her father since she was a child. "Business is in my blood. I have been around businessmen my whole life. However, as I grew up, I started to drift a little towards other things," she says.
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