SHRIPAD DABHOLKAR

1. SHRIPAD DABHOLKAR www.Prayogparivar.com

2. SHRIPAD DABHOLKAR • Born in 1925, a man with vivid ideas • In earlier days of career he was an educator, having network of teaching institutes. • 1955 he turned rural educator, adopted a non-conventional method of teaching rural people

3. Conti…… • Joined Mauni Vidyapeeth where non institutionalized training was practiced • Inclined towards rural development • Believes in creativity and originality and want to revolutionize the existing cultivation practice

4. Established prayog parivar or Clan of experimenters. The root meaning of word "Prayog" is, "Pra" means, 'Going ahead' and "Yog" is Yukti or Knack. • It was a network of 10,000 poor and marginalized farmers • He experimented new methods in Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, Rearing goats and rabbits

5. Every experiment conducted by him has a pragmatic approach, he would start with resources that are available to a below poverty line farmers.

6. He and his Prayog parivar worked specially for grapes and revolutionized every aspect of grape cultivation in Maharashtra. eg, spacing the vines, training them, thinning girdling and preservation etc.. This result in increase in cultivation of grapes amounting to Rs 500 crores that too in drought prone areas of Maharashtra

7. His pioneered contributions in improving the cultivation practices of • Growing sweet potatoes only in half decomposed leaf moulds heaps • Raising pineapple in heaps of leaf mould • He discovered that half ripe papaya fruits provide best nutrients to egg laying poultry

8. He found that the slurry of animal dung and urine, or fish waste works miracles in plant growth. In this slurry he used to grow watermelons on it ,which were same in nutrients and quality when compared to normal cultivation.

9. Experiment on lemon cultivation • He used to grow lemons throughout the year on a very small size (only ten sq. ft canopy size) lemon plant in the heap of special soil made from composted kitchen and garden waste with the slurry. He used to get about 250 lemons on this Lemon plant. He tried custard apple, fig fruit plants and later grapes as mobile tabletop plants.

10. Received national award for implementing innovative practice in cultivation. He believes is making the best use of locally available resources with technical know how to maximize output.

11. He set up a small model garden, very productive self-sustained rainforest type multi-tier garden which became a sensation to everyone in the locality (educated, uneducated, literate, illiterate) and to every one who came for short long term training courses in his institute. It inspire them how to manage waste and extract best out of waste.

12. He proves that one set of nutrients from plants of one type for the next round, obtaining different nutrients from different parts -- the roots, the leaves, the stems, husk, bagasse -- of the plant, obtaining different nutrients by composting the plant at different stages of its growth .

13. He has established that a family of five with just a quarter of an acre can grow enough to acquire a living standard in terms of nourishment and income of a middle class family -- and this has been established not in theory but in the plots themselves, and not just by him but by farmers and families which have adopted the methods he has pioneered

14. He delivered the speech in Delhi “prosperity with equity” in this he emphasize that “the best and the latest of the modern science and its work results have failed to reach the last person. Then why not take the very essence of the latest and the best of modern science straight to the average grass root people and hand it over to them”.

15. He was first to enlighten the real problem before the nation is 'Waste mind' and 'Waste land' and he emphasize that if there is no 'Waste mind' there will be no 'Waste land' and set examples that ventures like organic farming and vermicomposting had a future potential to get established and carry it all over India

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