{"id":3018,"date":"2018-01-03T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T08:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:37:11","slug":"lovepreet-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/lovepreet-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovepreet 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\/lovepreet-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Lovepreet Singh&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/lovepreet-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\/lovepreet-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\/lovepreet-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\/lovepreet-singh\/&title=Lovepreet 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\/lovepreet-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\/lovepreet-singh\/&title=Lovepreet 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%2Flovepreet-singh%2F&name=Lovepreet+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=Lovepreet%20Singh&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/lovepreet-singh\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">How Booming Interest of This B.Tech Graduate, Made Him Choose Agriculture as His Full-Time Career<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meet Lovepreet Singh, a young lad with B.Tech. Degree in his hand, who instead of having a choice of doing a desk job and living a comfortable city life, choose to stay in his village to reap prosperity out of agriculture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>About 20 km towards east from district headquarters Sangrur, Kapial village is situated in Bhawani Garh tehsil, where Lovepreet Singh is living with his father, grandfather, mother and sister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In 2008-2009, Lovepreet started organic farming of wheat on just 1 acre of land because of his growing interest in the agriculture field. Rest of the land was given on lease to other farmers, as farming was never a primary source of income for Lovpreet\u2019s family. Moreover, Lovpreet\u2019s father- Mr. Sant Pal Singh was settled in Dubai and had a stable income to support the family needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>As the time passed, Lovepreet\u2019s interest grew more and his motherland called him back. Soon after completing his degree, he thought of taking his big step towards farming. He got his land soil sample tested by Punjab Agro and took rest of his land back from the farmers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The next crop that Lovepreet organically cultivated on his land was turmeric and along with that he also started processing it by himself. Turmeric on 1 acre and wheat-paddy on 4 acres. But adopting organic farming completely was not acceptable by Lovepreet\u2019s family. In 2010, when his father returned from Dubai, he was against Organic Farming, because in his views organic yields less productivity. But no criticism and no bad words had the power to stir the strong determination of Lovepreet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>To increase his income, Lovepreet decided of cultivating turmeric on large basis instead of wheat. In the beginning, he faced many problems in turmeric processing, as he had no knowledge of it, but with his efforts and expert advice, he was able to achieve all the difficulties. He started using cow and buffalo dung as manure in his field to increase the productivity and quality of the crop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>After seeing the results, his father also started helping him in farming. He even contacted Punjab Agro to get his turmeric powder get organic certification and by the end of this year, he will get that. Currently, he is actively involved in turmeric farming and processing. Whenever he gets time, he visits Punjab Agriculture University and read books suggested by the experts of the university to bring positive outcome in his farming. Punjab Agro also helps him with necessary information and make him interact with other progressive farmers who are actively involved in organic farming. Other than turmeric he is also cultivating Wheat, Paddy, Maize, Bajra, but on small scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #f0690e;\"><strong>Future Plan:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span> <em><em>His future plan is to expand turmeric farming and processing work, and form a group of farmers doing organic farming. Purchase common machines for the use of the group and support farmers doing organic farming.<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Message:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">\u201c<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">The one message that I want to convey to the farmers is that organic farming is very important to conserve the environment. Everyone should do organic and eat organic, in this way pollution can also be reduced.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[309,721,724,720,54,723,722,716,135,59,53,310,51,122,725,717,718,183,719,286],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-with-image","tag-apni-kheti","tag-bajra","tag-bhawani-garh","tag-clover","tag-crops","tag-kapial","tag-kisan","tag-lovepreet-singh","tag-maize","tag-organic","tag-organic-farming","tag-paddy","tag-progressive-farmer","tag-punjab","tag-sangrur","tag-sant-pal-singh","tag-turmeric-farming","tag-turmeric-powder","tag-turmeric-processing","tag-wheat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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