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7 Celebs in India Who Have Embraced Farming As A Career

Farming is more than just a hobby, and when it comes to these celebs, they are thrilled with the reaps of their toil in the fields.

Millions of dollars are spent each year by celebrities worldwide on their extravagant mansions, fashionable wardrobes, and swimming pools. While some turn to farming as a second career, others have found peace and contentment in their fields. There are several reasons behind this, including the desire not to lose connection with one's heritage and the chemically-treated food available in supermarkets. These celebrities enjoy cultivating, tilling, and harvesting food crops on their farmland.

Jackie Shroff

Jackie Shroff, an actor, and farmer, is most known for his outlandish character, an outspoken environmentalist and farmer. Between Mumbai and Pune, he owns a 44,000-square-foot property. His social media profiles are loaded with postings and videos about his enthusiasm for gardening, animals, insects, and fresh veggies.

Rajesh Kumar

Sarabhai VS Sarabhai star Rosesh is now pursuing a life as a farmer. Bihar is his home state, and his zero-budget spiritual farming practices include avoiding artificial fertilizers in favor of organic ones. It was around two years ago that he made the decision to transform Barma into an ingenious hamlet. He calls himself a 'farmer by choice,' and his organic food delivery service, 'Mera Family Farmer,' is named after him.

Salman Khan

Salman Khan often finds solace in farming, family gatherings, and animals at his Panvel farmhouse. He frequently posts images and videos of him laboring in paddy fields, plowing, riding tractors, and harvesting crops to his social media accounts. He loves animals so much that he named two of his horses, Bajrangi and Bhaijaan, after the characters in his film BajrangiBhaijaan, which he played in the 1980s. In addition to his many other abilities, farming is one of them.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin Siddiqui worked as a farmer before breaking into Bollywood, and it's still a part of his life he's never forgotten. He typically spends his free time in the woods or tilling the land on his Uttar Pradesh farms. So it's not uncommon for him to provide a peek of his family's mustard field.

Prakash Raj

One of Bollywood's most popular comedy villains, Prakash Raj, frequently blogs about his farm, Prakasham. In the last decade or so, he purchased a couple acres of property to plant trees, and he's been cultivating vegetables and grains on it ever since.

Juhi Chawla

Celebrity Juhi Chawla is a strong advocate for farmers' rights. Her family acreage is said to have been leased to the landless farmers so they could grow rice during the pandemic. In return, they were allowed to keep a tiny share of the harvest.

Kangana Ranaut

In an interview, Kangana Ranaut said that her mother grows practically everything one would need in a kitchen. Then there's the fact that she recently planted 20 trees independently. In addition, she spends a lot of time in her ancestral house in Manali and cultivates plants.