Bengaluru farmer earns ₹15 lakh monthly by cultivating baby bottle gourd

Kari Gowda, a farmer in Karlapura Palya, Bengaluru Urban District, is cultivating baby bottle gourd on his 3.5-acre farm. He sells the small gourds, weighing about 500 grams, to foreign markets like Qatar. According to him, he harvests about one ton of gourds daily during the harvest period from September to December, earning approximately ₹50,000 per day and ₹14 to ₹15 lakh per month.