From one experimental acre to the largest contiguous khapli sowing in North India in modern memory.

The 100-acre plot

Before this revival, khapli wheat in India lived only in pockets. Small farmer collectives in Maharashtra — particularly around Aurangabad and Jalna — kept the seed alive across the Green Revolution decades. A handful of growers in Karnataka and Gujarat maintained ceremonial plots. In North India — the heartland of Indian wheat production, the home of the very Green Revolution that displaced khapli — the grain had effectively vanished. No commercial farm grew it. No mill processed it. No brand sold it.

We started small. One acre, in October 2022.

The first acre

A handful of seed sourced from a heritage seed bank in Jalna. Sown experimentally between rows of mustard, with no clear plan beyond seeing whether the grain would even take to Haryana's soil and climate after a fifty-year absence.

It took. The first harvest in March 2023 yielded modestly but cleanly — about 1.4 tonnes from a single acre, with no chemical input, no irrigation crisis, and rotis from that first sack that tasted unmistakably like our grandmother's kitchen. We doubled the plot the following year, then quadrupled it.

The milestone

Why this matters

100 acres is the smallest scale at which we can build a real ecosystem. Enough seed to multiply for next year's plot. Enough volume to justify dedicated dehulling and stone-grinding infrastructure on the farm. Enough surplus to begin sharing seed with neighbouring farmers who want to convert acreage.

Scale to 500 acres by 2027 — and from there, hand the seed forward.

The ecosystem we're building

• Seed multiplication on-farm — enough by 2027 to onboard 8–10 neighbouring farmers without external sourcing.
• On-farm dehulling and stone-grinding infrastructure — the bottleneck that has kept other North Indian farmers from trying khapli. Solved once, here, for the region.
• Guaranteed off-take price at roughly 2× the MSP for modern wheat — making khapli economically viable for the farmer family before brand premium.
• Soil regeneration: deep-rooted khapli, intercropped with mustard and pulses, rebuilds topsoil that 50 years of monoculture has thinned out.