On land this small, the question is not yield per acre. It is what to put there at all.
Bishni worked a plot recorded at 0.01 acre. Staple grains on that area would generate almost nothing worth counting. She raised an early cauliflower variety instead - nursery on 7 July 2025, transplanted 12 August.
Harvesting began on 6 December and ran to 8 February 2026. One hundred and sixty kilograms across the cycle.
The costs were small and fully listed: ₹30 for ten grams of seed, ₹100 each for land rent, land preparation and organic manure, ₹50 irrigation, ₹200 labour. Total ₹580. The harvest was valued at ₹8,000, a stated net return of ₹7,420.
Her conclusion was that cauliflower gave three to four times the benefit of paddy and wheat, and that a farmer with very little area can earn more from it than from anything else on the same ground.
That speaks to a real climate-justice question: how do households with almost no cultivable land increase what that land can do without taking a risk they cannot absorb?
The answer is not yield. Early vegetables need dependable seed, nursery care, irrigation, pest management, labour and a market that will take a perishable crop quickly. Bishni got through all of it across one complete season.
Her record is a starting point for other members of the Kajal Aajeevika Adhikar Sangathan to weigh both the opportunity and the risks. It should not be read as a promise that the same return appears on every plot.
On land this small, the question is not yield per acre. It is what to put there at all.
Make the Smallest Holdings Count
Ten grams of seed and nursery support turned a hundredth of an acre into a season’s earning. Scale that thought across the households with the least land.