Strawberries and dreams in India's fields

BHILAR, India - Farmer Shripati Nana Jadhav has good reasons to be a fan of strawberries: They've funded construction of his simple, spacious house near the western Indian hill station of Panchgani and allowed him to send his four children to college.

Jadhav has been growing strawberries for more than 30 years, taking advantage of the temperate climate that lured the British from the coastal monsoon heat more than 100 years ago to branch out from traditional cereal crops and sugar. "Returns from strawberries enabled me to make all three of my sons engineers," the 62-year-old Jadhav said, sitting on a flat bench bed in his airy home as he sipped traditional chai tea.

"Initially, I built a room and as strawberries started giving me returns, I expanded my home by building (more) rooms."