{"id":2642,"date":"2017-11-09T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2019-06-01T06:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:12:18","slug":"gurdeep-singh-brar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurdeep Singh Brar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Gurdeep Singh Brar&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/&title=Gurdeep Singh Brar\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Reddit\" class=\"s3-reddit hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/&title=Gurdeep Singh Brar\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to StumbleUpon\" class=\"s3-stumbleupon hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apnikheti.com%2Fprogressivefarmers%2Fgurdeep-singh-brar%2F&name=Gurdeep+Singh+Brar\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Tumblr\" class=\"s3-tumblr hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Gurdeep%20Singh%20Brar&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/gurdeep-singh-brar\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #de0b8a;\">A MAN\u2019S AWAKENING TRANSITION: FROM CONVENTIONAL FARMING TO ORGANIC FARMING<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The main reason behind people\u2019s awakening is because they have finally stopped agreeing to the things that doesn\u2019t satisfy them. It is said that when a person is evolving into something good, at that time the road may seem lonely but you are simply shedding the things and habits that no longer is required. One such person who went opposite of the society\u2019s trend and gone through an awakening transition of conventional to organic farming is Mr Gurdeep Singh Brar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Gurdeep Singh Brar is a resident of village Mehma Sawai\u00a0, District Bathinda. 17 years back a huge transition phase came into Mr Gurdeep\u2019s life which totally changed his views and methods of farming. Today, Mr Singh is a successful and well known organic farmer in Bathinda. And his earning is also very good as compared to the other farmers who are practicing conventional farming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Before doing organic farming, Gurdeep Singh Brar was an ordinary farmer who used to do the same thing that he saw while growing up all his childhood. He had only 2 acres of land on which he was farming and his income was only hand to mouth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In 1995 he came in contact with the experts of Farmer Salahkar Seva Kendra. There he discussed all his farming related doubts with them and found out all the solutions and answers of it. He also get associated with the experts of KVK Bathinda branch. After sometime the experts of Farmer Salahkar Kendra motivated him to make a small kitchen garden in 1 canal of area by providing him a vegetable seed kit. When the kitchen garden idea went successful then he expanded the 1 canal area to 2 canal and started generating good produce of vegetables out of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In 1999, just after 4 years he came in touch with Ambuja Cement Foundation, he co-operated with them and visited many different farms\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #f0690e;\">Some of them are:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Nabha Organic Farm<br \/>\n\u2022 Bhagat Puran Singh farm in Ganga Nagar.<br \/>\n\u2022 Organic Farm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This whole series of visit to different farms inspired him towards organic farming. And after that he also started growing seasonal fruits along with vegetables. He uses organic method for seed treatment, traps for pest control and also prepare organic manure. For seed treatment he uses Neem Water, Cow Urine (Gau Mutr), mixture of Lime Stone Water and Asafetida water mixture. He also uses Jivamrit (made by him at home) to make vegetable yield more healthy and chemical free. For pest attack prevention he uses sour buttermilk (Lassi made by him) in his fields. He is also very conscious towards the water management so for irrigation he uses drip irrigation system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Gurdeep Singh has also established a vermi-compost unit at his farm so that he can provide pure organic manure to the vegetables and fruits. He has made two holes of 1 canal each, where he decomposes cow dung, buffalo dung, and poultry manure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Along with farming he also prepares seed of pumpkin, bitter gourd and ridge gourd himself at home, which completely end his need of buying vegetable seeds from the market. To increase the quantity and quality if the pumpkin, he especially uses rope mesh to give pumpkin vines proper support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Today his vegetable are so popular that people from Bathinda, Goniana Mandi and other nearby villages visit his farm especially to buy vegetables. When it comes to marketing the vegetables, then he is never dependent on any third person. He himself sell his produce by making 500 grams of packets and in current date he is earning good profit out of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>For his farming techniques and methods he is awarded with many local awards and he also has membership of many farming societies and organization. In 2015, he received Surjit Singh Dhillon Award from PAU. Reaching up to this level for a man who never went to school, is really considerable. Currently he is living with his mother, wife and son in his village. His future plans is to continue organic farming and provide health and chemical free food to the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Message Given To Farmers:<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">&#8220;<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\"> Today cancer like disease is spreading among the people is because of chemicals being used by the farmers. I\u2019m not saying that farmers shouldn\u2019t use fertilizer and pesticide, but they should reduce its use and switch to organic farming. In this way they can stop the soil and water pollution and can also prevent cancer like deadly diseases.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\"> \u201d<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #f0690e;\">These are some of his inventions<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"pic1_en\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En-1200x790.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic1_En.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[47,309,159,405,66,401,403,404,505,391,53,122,306,64],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-with-image","tag-agriculture","tag-apni-kheti","tag-bathinda","tag-drip-irrigation","tag-farming","tag-gurdeep-singh-brar","tag-innovative-farmer","tag-kitchen-garden","tag-mehma-sawai","tag-natural-farming","tag-organic-farming","tag-punjab","tag-vegetable-farming","tag-vermicomposting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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