Food & Agriculture
Restaurants are throwing good food every night, but not anymore.
During college days I worked part time in a restaurant. We cook biryani bulk every day and some days we cant sell all. Fresh food but we have to throw it. If we put discount and list on Swiggy or Zomato last minute they still take 30 percent commission. After discount and 30 percent commission we are almost giving for free and still paying for packing. So everyday it goes in bin. If a platform just send notification to nearby people location wise, students in hostels PGs apartments get alert saying biryani here for 70 rupees pickup only. They come and take it. Restaurant gets some money, no delivery no commission no waste.
Thousands of acres, adopted forests, passion or business? Carbon credits is a big business.
Ever connected these dots. Why Ambani and Adani adopt thousands of acres of forest like Vantara. Passion maybe. But actually industries that pollute have to buy carbon credits by law to offset that pollution. Every tree generates these credits. So whoever owns the forest can sell those credits and earn real money. Small companies who want to buy credits dont know where to go and getting cheated also. If someone builds simple marketplace where companies buy verified credits and farmers or landowners sell credits from their trees both sides benefit. India Carbon Credit Trading Scheme already started in 2023. Whoever builds this now will own the market when it becomes compulsory for everyone.
Every plastic bottle you use lives 5 times longer than a human, natural alternative is here.
We all witnessed how plastic bottle prices suddenly increased when crude oil prices went up. That direct relation is a dangerous problem when we have no alternative and fully depend on it. We use the bottle once and the earth carries it for 400 to 500 years. Five human lifetimes for one minute of use. Our ancestors carried all kinds of liquids without plastic by using bamboo, banana leaves, coconut shells. Nature always had the solution. With present day innovation if we use those natural materials we can make biodegradable and environment friendly alternatives that actually work.
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Sekhar MurthyMay 4, 2026 3:19 PMWe have franchises for pizza and coffee, why not for village farming.
I am from village and I seen how hard farmers work and they sell everything fresh to big factories, factories add chemicals and also as always farmer is under paid. The idea is not delivery but processing. Change the form of the product right where it is grown. Chillis into chilli powder, mangoes into pulp, strawberries into jam, cocoa into cocoa powder. When you process it there itself shelf life increases, logistics cost reduces, no need for heavy chemicals and product value goes up. Farmer earns more, rural people get jobs and customer gets real quality. Export it sell it under one brand name. Same franchise model, just for farming.
What if you could own a cow in a village and track it from your phone.
I live in a city and love cattle but I cannot raise them here. Every house consumes milk daily but we never really know whether it is real milk or powdered. Owning a cow also gives monthly income. Last month for my wife's birthday I gave her gold. But what if I gave her a buffalo instead. She gets fresh milk and monthly income from it every single month. If someone sets up cattle hostels, takes care of everything, updates health and earnings on an app and takes a small commission per cattle then on weekends we visit the farm, spend time with our animal and come back home with fresh milk.