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Know who is Babulal Dahiya !

  Babulal Dahiya is a 76 year old farmer from Pithaurabad village in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh. He is a postmaster turned farmer, for the betterment of society. He took the move to pull out society from the trap of the chemical grown fruits and vegetables. He is a well known paddy farmer , famous for his experiments in this field, and including the folk theme in farming.  Mr. Dahiya is also famous for environment conservation and social conversate in Madhya Pradesh .   Early life He was born in the year 1954 in the village Pithaurabad of Satna district in the state Madhya Pradesh. His childhood was spent in the Pithaurabad village . He completed his studies in local school. And he grew old to become a postmaster. His half of the life passed doing the job of postmaster in the postal department. After retirement, he decided to do farming on his 8 acres of land. From childhood only, he was keen to protect the environment. This conversing nature of him towards the environment m

Saffron farming in Jharkhand

This is the real life story of three farmers named  Pawan Kumar Bhogata , Ruplaal  Singh Bhogata  and  Vinod Bhogata , from Chatra, Jharkhand.  Jharkhand , a state which resembles its name, i.e, it is full of greenery, and  forestry.  A state full of rich minerals and resources .  Here, farming is the main occupation of people in the tribal areas.  People   from these   villages are not much educated. They are dependent on the family farming business, being followed from their ancestor's time.    In almost all villages people do farming for a living. This blog, is to bring it out to you people,  the initiative that changes the life . It is about the movement of people from farming of  Opium   (Afeem)  to Saffron (Kesar).   Some Backgrounds Since many years, people in the villages of Chatra District were in trap of the farming followed from the British rule.  From that time, farmers here cultivated the plant of opium  (Afeem)   at a very large extent. Opium is not a soil friendly po