{"id":3577,"date":"2018-04-11T07:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:16:04","slug":"narayan-lal-dhakad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/","title":{"rendered":"Narayan Lal Dhakad"},"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\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Narayan Lal Dhakad&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" 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\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" 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\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/&title=Narayan Lal Dhakad\" 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\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" 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\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/&title=Narayan Lal Dhakad\" 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%2Fnarayan-lal-dhakad%2F&name=Narayan+Lal+Dhakad\" 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=Narayan%20Lal%20Dhakad&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/narayan-lal-dhakad\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #de0b8a;\">How This 19-Year-Old Boy Is Using YouTube &amp; Facebook to Teach Farmers Sustainable Farming Practices<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Young farmers are the future and this 19-year-old boy has proven it right by showing his passion towards farming. Narayan Lal Dhakad is a young boy from Rajasthan- the land of Kings, Legacy, Tourism, Heritage and Rich Culture, and his personality is also very distinctive like his homeland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nowadays, we are seeing many examples where educated people of India are choosing agriculture as their working place and are coming up as an independent agri-entrepreneur, same is the case with Narayan Lal Dhakad. Despite, lacking the basic facilities and enough resources, this boy chose the medium of YouTube and Facebook to disseminate knowledge to help the farming community. Currently, he has 60,000 YouTube subscribers and 30,000 Facebook followers. You will be shocked to know that this boy doesn\u2019t have any laptop, personal computer system or any kind of video editing equipment for editing the videos. With the help of his smartphone, he is making informative farming videos.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0fa4b8;\">\u201cMy father died some days before my birth and it was a very dreadful situation for my family. My family was facing a severe financial crisis, but even then my mother raised us well by doing farming and labour work. Perceiving the family conditions, I started farming at a very young age and also learned it well very soon.\u201d<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Narayan<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Living a hand-to-mouth life, Narayan realized that utilizing the resources well and innovating new ideas with simple hacks to deal with daily common pest and farm issues, is the best thing. Narayan also recognized that the big part of the farming expense is just because of the use of fertilizers and pesticides, and this is the only reason which builds a big mountain of debt over the farmers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0fa4b8;\">\u201cWhen it comes to adopting organic farming, then every farmer cannot successfully do it, because its productivity is low; and in distant locations, organic spray and products are not easily available.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2013 Narayan<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Understanding the problem of his area, Narayan invented many easy techniques to control termite, Nilgai, pest and crop disease. All the techniques developed by Narayan were successful and were very cheap that any farmer can easily follow. And to make his techniques available to every farmer he makes videos with his phone, explain everything in it and share it on YouTube and Facebook.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Despite facing difficulties in making videos through his phone, he never dropped his idea of helping the farmers. Narayan has reached out to many farmers in his area and has solved their problem by reaching out to Krishi Vigyan Kendra\u2019s and Agriculture Scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Message:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\">\u201cFarmers should adopt organic farming because using chemicals and pesticides on their farm not only harm the environment but also their own people. Moreover, by following organic farming farmer can take healthy yield without doing expenses on the pesticides and insecticides.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Narayan Lal Dhakad has written a success story at just the age of 19. By seeing his passion and determination to work harmoniously towards sustainable agriculture practices, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare has nominated him for Krishi Award in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Narayan Lal Dhakad has become an emerging voice in India which has the capability to change worsening circumstances of farmers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do check his YouTube channel &amp; Facebook page, for more inspiring stories of farmers download\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.cogneesol.apnikhetiapp\">Apni Kheti app from Google Play store<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1743,1741,1747,1740,391,1746,53,1745,51,928,1744,1742],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medium-with-image","tag-agri-entrepreneur","tag-chittorgarh","tag-crop-diseases-control","tag-narayan-lal-dhakad","tag-natural-farming","tag-nilgai-control","tag-organic-farming","tag-pest-control","tag-progressive-farmer","tag-rajasthan","tag-termite-control","tag-young-farmer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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