May 4, 1990 – Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi
Aryan arrived early. Before any minister. Before the chai arrived. The Secretary of Agriculture found him already seated at the head of the long table.
He didn't waste a second.
"Today, I'm not asking you how to help farmers," Aryan said. "I'm asking how to make India the world's top agro-tech exporter by 2000."
Everyone looked stunned.
The Agriculture Minister, Jitendra Deswal, a veteran from Haryana, frowned. "Sir, respectfully… we are food sufficient, but far from food dominant. Export leadership in just 10 years? It's impossible."
"That's what they said about my industrial reform bill," Aryan smiled.
"This won't be another slow yojana. This will be AgriNova. A complete restructuring of farming from seed to shelf."
He clicked a remote.
A slide flashed:
AgriNova: 6 Pillars of New Agriculture
Crop Zoning & Weather Intelligence
Smart Irrigation Systems
Agro-Logistics Corridors
Village Cold Chains & Food Parks
Global Agri-Export Councils
Farmer-Owned AgriTech Cooperatives
"By 1995, every crop must have a weather-based calendar linked to regional storage, cold chain paths, and rail hubs. No more spoilage, no more guesswork."
May 9, 1990 – Field Pilot: Latur, Maharashtra
The team chose Latur, a drought-prone region. For decades, crops died or failed, and farmers went broke.
Aryan's plan? Deploy prototype weather-sensors, drip kits, a digital farmer registry, and train locals to run everything.
Within three weeks:
Rain sensors predicted early showers.
Farmers shifted sowing dates and used less water.
Local officers used VillageCode to sync cold storage routes.
The first mobile agro-clinic van reached 40 farmers in two days.
A young farmer named Aadesh Jadhav, watching results live on a government tablet, burst into tears.
"Nobody ever told me what my soil needed. I just copied neighbors. Now I know. And now I have hope."
May 15, 1990 – AgriNova Act Introduced in Parliament
Aryan stood and introduced a new legal framework:
AgriNova Mission Act, 1990
Classify agri-zones based on microclimate.
Incentivize export-grade crops in coastal states.
Invest in 25 Mega Food Parks with farmer co-ownership.
Establish FarmIQ App for real-time guidance.
Eliminate middlemen in procurement.
Launch DeshAgri Export Council with farmer representation.
Opposition Leader Vikram Desai scoffed, "This is overreach. PM wants to tell farmers how to farm?"
Aryan countered calmly:
"No, I want to listen to farmers. But first, I want to make sure they survive long enough to speak."
May 25, 1990 – National Broadcast
Aryan appeared again on Doordarshan:
"We've called farmers 'our backbone' for 40 years. Then we made them wait in the sun. Made them beg for fertilizer. Allowed middlemen to loot them."
"No more."
"With AgriNova, we will make every farmer a scientist, every crop traceable, every harvest insurable, and every grain respected."
He raised his hand:
"We exported our brightest engineers to build Silicon Valley. Now, we build Green Valley right here."
June 1, 1990 – System Notification
[Ding! Task Progress +11%]Subtask "Modernize Agriculture" milestone reached.
Reward Unlocked: Precision Seed Genome Database (Gen-II)Unlocked in: National Biotech Council
[Reminder: This reward will vanish in 8 days.]
Aryan chuckled, "Eight days. Got it, you jealous robot."
June 10, 1990 – Early Effects
Reports came in:
Farmers in Tamil Nadu switched to hybrid rice after FarmIQ alerts.
In Punjab, solar-powered irrigation saved thousands of liters weekly.
In Assam, first-ever spice exports linked via VillageCode reached Japan.
NRIs from Canada pledged $200 million in AgriNova Green Bonds.
Agriculture was no longer India's pain.
It was becoming its pride.
Final Scene – Latur, Maharashtra
Aryan visited again, quietly. No cameras. No media.
Aadesh Jadhav greeted him with folded hands and said, "Saheb, can I show you something?"
He led him to the back of his hut — a narrow patch of land with a small sign:
"AgriNova Plot 01. Managed by Aadesh. For India."
Aryan just nodded.
This was what change looked like — one plot at a time.