Hi Raitha,
I am in the same boat as yours. Recently I quit my IT job and picked up 6.5 Acres of land just to do what you have in your mind. That is to have some “peace of mind and some piece of money”. All these I did because my gut feeling was same as yours. Did a lot of running around to all GKVK, IIHR, etc etc including agri fairs and numerous web sites. Now with sufficient theoretical data I am confident that it can be done !!. And I am going to do it no matter how the hardship is. Out there, there are many who have done it. Yours and my advantage is we have technical background, I mean we can put reason and logic to succeed.
At present I am building a small house there once it is thru, I will be at my fields experimenting. My short visits during my house construction itself was thrilling.
Feel free to join me in this thrilling journey. By the way I do not have any experience in farming, except for growing some in my back yard.
You can mail me. kgmural@gmail.com or nakshatrithota @ gmail.com
Cheers, with super duper food chains and retail marketing coming, its not a road with dead end, in agriculture.
Murali