Grassroots innovations in agriculture: Case studies of innovative farmers from Telangana

Farmers have innate abilities to innovate. The innovativeness of these farmers needs to be documented and analysed in order to learn lessons from the farmers experience, their best practices, ability to plan and manage the farm as an enterprise. Documentation of farmers innovations will provide a platform for selection and make way for identifying its usefulness and practicability scientists in terms of importance in farming. Hence, farmers innovations were documented through primary data and also by reviewing secondary sources. Farmers innovations were analysed using case study methodology. Innovative farmers possessed key traits such as inquisitiveness, technology orientation, achievement motivation, social networking ability, creativity and research orientation.