Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Indian farmer

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

Farmer story: Kisan Chachi

When you all hear the word farmer, an image comes to your mind of a man working in the fields. But to your surprise, today I am going to tell you all the story of a lady farmer. A farmer from Bihar and this lady is well known as Kisan Chachi. Her name is Rajkumari Devi. Rajkumari Devi is an Indian farmer, from Anandpur village located in Saraiya block of Muzaffarpur district, Bihar. She was born in a poor family. Due to poverty, she could not complete her  matriculate . She got married at an early age (at the age of 15). In 1974, she was married to Awadhesh Kumar Choudhary in a family of farmers. After her marriage she completed her matriculate. But because of financial problem , Rajkumari Devi did not pursue her higher studies. Kisan Chachi (Rajkumari Devi) As a women, her life was becoming hell due to taunts from her in-laws , as even after many years of her marriage, she did not bear a child. They got separated from the family with 2.5 acres of land. Running her house became difficu

Farmer story :The Mango Man

When it is summer season and we don't talk about mango, it would be unfair. Summer is incomplete without   the sweet delicious fruit which is  mango , "the king of fruits". So today in this farmer story, i'll be telling you all about the mango man  of our country, Haji Kalimullah Khan, who made our mangoes famous worldwide. This is picture of the mango man smiling with his mangoes   Technique used :- He is an Indian Horticulturist . With his knowledge and experiments, he has grown a variety of mangoes. Among these, one of his most popular experiments is of growing 300 varieties of mangoes on a single tree. Yes, I know ,you all must be surprised that how's that possible. But it is true, and this is possible with a technique known as grafting. With the use of this technique he developed variety of mangoes. Grafting is a horticulture technique in which tissues of plants are joined to grow together. The upper part of combined plant is called the scion and the