Ms. Asha Sheshadri is an Agriculturist and a Post Graduate in Sociology. She has been into agriculture for past 40 years and growing arecanut, pepper, rubber, agar wood, sandal wood, vanilla , few fruit crops and floriculture ( anthurium and orchids). Their farm is about 68 acres located at Teerthahalli Taluk, Shimoga District, Karnataka in which high tech agriculture practices are done.