{"id":2664,"date":"2017-11-13T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:18:57","slug":"davinder-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/davinder-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Davinder Singh"},"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\/davinder-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Davinder Singh&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/davinder-singh\/\" 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\/davinder-singh\/\" 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\/davinder-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/davinder-singh\/&title=Davinder Singh\" 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\/davinder-singh\/\" 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\/davinder-singh\/&title=Davinder Singh\" 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%2Fdavinder-singh%2F&name=Davinder+Singh\" 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=Davinder%20Singh&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/davinder-singh\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #de0b8a;\">How a farmer made diversified farming his path of success and is inspiring others through it.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>One of the successful diversified farmer Davinder Singh from Nakodar (District Jalandhar) discussed with Apni Kheti Team that how he was motivated towards diversified farming and what other inventions he did in the field of farming to reap good profit from it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Davinder Singh is a firm believer of the thought that \u2013 \u201cThe work done by self is important only\u201d and today whatever he has achieved is by his hard work and hunger to do more in the field of farming. As coming from a farming background he started farming after completing his 10th and didn\u2019t go for higher studies. He started farming with vegetables like an ordinary farmer. He already had 1.8 hectares land of his own but he also took 1 hectare on rent. The income he was generating from farming was enough to satisfy the present family needs but not that enough to think about the better future for his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In 1990-91 he came in contact with Punjab Agriculture University and learned about some new farming techniques which could help in generating good profit from farming without expanding the farming area. And the reason which motivated him to implement those new techniques on his farm was that it doesn\u2019t include any hi-tech machinery or chemicals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>To expand his area of expertise he also took beekeeping training from KVK- Noor Mahal, Jalandhar and started beekeeping. This venture made him good profit and he continued it. By implementing new farming techniques like bed farming and tunnel farming, he started diversified farming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Well, many people are doing diversified farming in Punjab, but they are limited to few crops only. Davinder Singh let his thought of wild horses run and he experimented by intercropping cabbage and onion together. This initiative of diversified farming gave him a very good yield and he harvested 375 quintals of cabbage and 125 quintals of onion in that season. Many agriculture experts got help from his farming ways in their research. He was also the first one who inter-cropped \u201conion, tomato, coriander\u201d together and after that, he also inter-cropped \u201conion, cucumber, capsicum\u201d and \u201ccabbage, marigold\u201d together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>All the crops pairing done by him for diversified farming was a great success and he made a great profit from all these inter-cropping patterns. He also received Jain Adviser State Award for his \u201cPapaya-Eggplant &amp; Cabbage-Onion\u201d inter-cropping patterns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Education never became a barrier between him and trending new farming techniques. His inquisitive mind always wanted to learn, and to satisfy the needs of his mind, he also fed his mind with appropriate knowledge. He always visited many progressive farmers of Maler Kotla to learn basics of vegetable farming and he also attended every type of meetings and camp organized by Punjab Agriculture University or Horticulture Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Davinder Singh\u2019s farming ways were so better and productive that he was also awarded Surjit Singh Dhillon Award by PAU in 2010 for Tunnel Farming. He also became the member of PAU Kisan Club and Agriculture Technology Prabandh Agency- ATMA Governing Body (Jalandhar).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Well, the key to scale success in the field of farming while moving from a beginning stage is to keep your creative\/innovative edge alive and Davinder Singh also did the same. He implemented drip irrigation and shower irrigation in his farm better water management. He also started using Tensiometer for paddy farming and Jantar to increase the yield of the soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Recently, he has started diversified farming of cucumber and water melon and is expecting great profit returns from it also. Many farmers visit his farm to see and learn from him and he also open-heartedly shares his learning with them. He wants to experiment more with diversified farming and spread his learning with other farmers so that they can also take benefit of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Future Plans:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><em>For the future, he has great ideas aligned in his mind and very soon he will be implementing those also.<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Message to Farmers:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">\u201c<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">Our land is gold and to cultivate gold out of it we have to do hard work and smart work both. We just need good farming techniques to harvest gold on our own. If we have skills then we should share it with others.<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[309,413,406,411,390,412,408,407,410,59,53,122,409,414,386],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-large-with-image","tag-apni-kheti","tag-bed-farming","tag-davinder-singh","tag-diversified-farming","tag-futuristic-farmer","tag-intercropping","tag-jalandhar","tag-nakodar","tag-nursery-farm","tag-organic","tag-organic-farming","tag-punjab","tag-sandhu-crop-care","tag-tunnel-farming","tag-vegetables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Davinder Singh - 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