Anubhav Crop Show 2022

9 varieties. One field. The beginning of something much bigger.

About This Edition

2021 โ€” The First Anubhav

Anubhav 2022 was where everything started. In May 2022, S2H planted 9 varieties of Teti (muskmelon) and Tarbooch (watermelon) in side-by-side plots at the farm of Nagbhai Dhandhal in Jamka village, Junagadh โ€” and invited farmers to walk the field and see the difference with their own eyes.

It was a small beginning by the scale of what Anubhav would become โ€” 9 varieties, one field, one farmer. But the idea it proved was enormous: that farmers don’t need to be told which variety to grow. They need to be shown. And when they see it themselves, they never forget it.

Nagbhai Dhandhal opened his land in Jamka for this first demonstration โ€” and the concept worked so well that he came back in 2023 to host 108 chilli varieties on the same farm. The farmer who believed in the idea first is the same farmer who helped it grow.

Event Details
Edition First Edition ยท Anubhav 2022
Date May 2022
Location Jamka Village, Junagadh District
Gujarat
Host Farmer Nagbhai Dhandhal, Jamka +91 99259 92874
Varieties Trialled 9 varieties total
Trial Type Side-by-side plot demonstration
Real farm conditions
Organised by S2H โ€“ Seed 2 Harvest

From the Field

Anubhav 2022 โ€” Field Photos

Photography from the 160-variety muskmelon and watermelon trial at Atlnagar, May 2024.

The Trial

What farmers could see on the field

01

Farmers trust what they see โ€” not what they are told

Even 9 varieties in a single field created visible, undeniable differences that every walking farmer could understand immediately. The live field demonstration was more persuasive than any expert presentation.

02

A small trial done properly is worth more than a large claim

9 varieties under rigorous equal conditions generated more useful, trustworthy data than any number of company-run trials with uncontrolled variables. Quality of methodology matters more than scale.

03

The idea scales โ€” from 9 to 290+ in four years

The proof of concept from 2022 was strong enough to justify expanding every year. By 2026, Anubhav had grown 32x in variety scale and drawn 10,000+ farmers โ€” all built on the foundation laid by 9 plots in Jamka.

9 Variety Trial Plot Layout โ€” Anubhav 2022
Teti Var. 1
Tarbooch Var. 1
Teti Var. 2
Tarbooch Var. 2
Teti Var. 3
Tarbooch Var. 3
Teti Var. 4
Tarbooch Var. 4
Teti Var. 5
Teti (Muskmelon) โ€” 5 varieties
Tarbooch (Watermelon) โ€” 4 varieties

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