> My biggest advice for a beginner is to consider your approach to pest control.
My co-founder, who's a passionate farmer by profession and a recovering software engineer by education, bugs me to no end to start a business in Hydroponics (growing plants without soil) [0]. He is a sucker for organic farming and absolutely swears by it. Keeps binge watching YouTube videos on the topic for hours on end.
He means to do a hydroponic setup up at his house this fall once he's relatively free of his current short-lived personal obligations.
Fwiw, YC has funded at least one Indian startup doing hydroponics at scale, and they offer a DIY take-home kit, too: https://www.urbankisaan.com/homekits
My co-founder, who's a passionate farmer by profession and a recovering software engineer by education, bugs me to no end to start a business in Hydroponics (growing plants without soil) [0]. He is a sucker for organic farming and absolutely swears by it. Keeps binge watching YouTube videos on the topic for hours on end.
He means to do a hydroponic setup up at his house this fall once he's relatively free of his current short-lived personal obligations.
Fwiw, YC has funded at least one Indian startup doing hydroponics at scale, and they offer a DIY take-home kit, too: https://www.urbankisaan.com/homekits
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics