[1] Ram Saran Verman hails from Daulatpur village in Barabanki district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
[2] Ram Saran Verma currently oversees farming on 150 acres of land, which directly and indirectly supports circa 20,000 people.
[2] He has been called the rural "high-tech farmer" by the Indian media, for introducing advanced farming techniques to improve yields in banana, tomato and potato crops for small rural Indian farmers.
[4][2][5] News18 India reported that at a function in 2012 to honour Ramsharan Verma, former Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam called him a "farmer's wizard", and separately, that he had produced "gold from the soil".
[3][2][5] In 2019, for his services to Indian farming, he was conferred the Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest national honour which was given to 94 people in that year.