Aaftab Sandhu

I'm 18, currently studying political science, public administration, and economics — and this isn't a school project. I grew up watching my grandfather and then my father work for farmers' rights in India, and I wanted to take that same fight further, to a global level.

Being close to that work means seeing something most headlines miss: farmers who love the land are still telling their own kids to go find a different job — not because they don't love farming, but because it rarely pays off the way it should. Meanwhile, good ideas from students and young innovators rarely make it anywhere near a real farm, and investors who want to back agriculture rarely find a way in that's fair to the people doing the growing.

Agro Revo World is my attempt to change that. It's a platform: we bring in projects for the welfare of farmers, one at a time, and each one has to leave the farmer better off to be worth doing.

I want to be clear about what it isn't: we're not going to show up and teach farmers how to farm. They know. What they've never been handed is investment that arrives before the season and a buyer who has already agreed a price.

So that's the job — bring in investors who can earn a real return while funding it, bring in the buyers, bring in students who want to take part in a field rather than write about one, and put all of it in front of farmers. Not charity, and not capital that extracts value, but projects where the farmer keeps what they earn.

We're starting in India, where my family's work has always been, with a project called Berries by Gus — helping farmers move part of their land off wheat and paddy and onto berries that are worth far more per kilo. It begins on 15 October 2026.