She first became involved in activism due to her struggle as an asthmatic athlete contending with air pollution. “Every breath I took during soccer training felt like pure agony,” she told The FBomb. She admitted that she only began to care about the terrifying air quality in her hometown of Delhi when it started directly affecting her, and that she only began to learn about other environmental issues after conversations with her cousin.in India.
Sensitive to the economic conditions and limited resources of local farmers, Tyagi understood that not all villagers had the means to alleviate this problem without disrupting their produce. So in 2017, at the age of 15, she set out to resolve this byto help farmers buy Happy Seeders, tractor-mounted machines that cut and lift rice straw, sow wheat into the soil, and deposit the straw over the sown area as mulch.
Tyagi decided to pursue this approach to the problem after her research revealed that “most prosperous farmers owned the seeder, while the destitute were unable to access it.” She reached out to manufacturers and informed them of her mission. The manufacturers were willing to sell the machines to such farmers at a subsidized cost, and Tyagi then set out to crowdfund the money necessary to purchase three machines, which she donated to arather than to individual farmers.
Now, at the age of 19, Tyagi is taking a gap year from university to pursue her activism in association with