At age 14 Mahendra Sookraj started farming, and over the years it has been good to him. However, in more recent times he realized that it was taking a toll on his body in addition to which the weather patterns had become unpredictable, so he made a decision to change course.
Change for him came in the form of hydroponic farming, which is a subset of hydroculture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without the use of soil.
Today he supplies the community of Pouderoyen,
