Alice Feiring has an interesting story in Newsweek.
She writes that Kazi Anis Ahmed of Bangladesh, the 41-year-old cofounder and president of a company called Teatulia, was getting his doctorate in comparative literature when his father suggested expanding the family media and construction business into tea farming. The location he had in mind was the barren northwest of the country, not far from India’s tea-growing region.
Kazi Anis Ahmed liked the idea but felt strongly that any farm of his should be organic. Additionally, says Feiring, the family’s “mission was to provide jobs to the region. …
“The lack of agricultural tradition proved a blessing because the land was virginal, not ravaged by the government-supported, synthetic-fertilizer-dominated ‘Green Revolution.’ After reading the poetic One Straw Revolution by the master Japanese farmer, Masanobu Fukuoka, Ahmed went one step beyond organic and tried to do low-intervention farming.
“The tea garden functions on minimal irrigation. They installed a plethora of plants next to the tea plants to feed and aerate the soil. What now exists is a breathtaking vision. The barren area has been transformed into an Eden with a resurgence of wildlife never seen before — recently, a pair of monkeys was spotted. The animals had not been seen in the area for decades.”
Read more at the Daily Beast. (Thanks for alerting me to this lovely story, Asakiyume.)
Photograph: Habibul Haque, Teatulia
Suzanne's Mom's Blog 
Very heartening to see that someone was inspired enough by Fukukoka’s work to transform a landscape and make a living.
Thanks for commenting. I hope to learn more about him.
He spoke at the MIT Legatum center. One favorite item was how they sold cows to the local community and were paid over time in manure, which they needed for the farm, and with milk they sold in a collaborative.
Wow! I love stories like this. It must have been great to hear the guy at MIT. Thanks, MisterSmartyPlants.com!
It must have been great to hear him speak!
So glad you liked this story too, Suzanne’s Mom.
This is undeniably an inspiring story to tell. I’m also amazed knowing this plethora plant that will aerate the soil by itself that lessens the work flow of the business. How I wish I could build this business in reality.
Thanks for the comment. I like the look of your tea store, http://www.sereni-tea.net/.