“I realized it can’t be done as a ‘do gooder” activity. If I wanted it to succeed, I had to think it through and come up with a business plan, and a bunch of my friends helped me to set it up,” Sharma says.
Vivek Deepak
Shubhendu Sharma left his high paying job as an engineer to plant trees for the rest of his life.
Using the unique Miyawaki methodology to grow saplings, afforest convertsany land into a self-sustainable forest in a couple of years. He has successfully created 33 forests across India in two years. It all started when Sharmavolunteered to assist a naturalist, Akira Miyawaki, to cultivate a forest at theToyota plant where he worked. Miyawaki’s technique has managed to regenerate forests from Thailand to the Amazon, and Sharma thought to replicate the model in India.
