{"id":3994,"date":"2018-07-11T05:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:17:39","slug":"jaswant-singh-sidhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaswant Singh Sidhu"},"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\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Jaswant Singh Sidhu&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" 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\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" 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\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/&title=Jaswant Singh Sidhu\" 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\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" 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\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/&title=Jaswant Singh Sidhu\" 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%2Fjaswant-singh-sidhu%2F&name=Jaswant+Singh+Sidhu\" 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=Jaswant%20Singh%20Sidhu&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/jaswant-singh-sidhu\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #de0b8a;\">Jaswant Singh Sidhu Sizing up Organic Farming with Floriculture<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>It was Jaswant Singh\u2019s grandfather who passed on the interest of floriculture to him and today Jaswant Singh is a progressive farmer who is practicing flower farming along with organic methods. The journey of Jaswant in the field of farming started at a very young age when his grandfather used to ask for his help while gardening. Slowly the interest of Mr. Jaswant Singh also turned towards flower farming. But for commercial purpose, his father was cultivating Paddy and Wheat like his ancestors, and due to less land and weak economic condition of the family, his father was least interested in taking any risk and adopting any new thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Besides knowing the family conditions, Jaswant Singh enrolled himself in the horticulture training organized by PAU, just after completing his 12th studies. Although he took the training of horticulture, his father never allowed him to practice floriculture on their land due to the fear of crop failure and loss. For some time, Jaswant Singh also continued with wheat and paddy cultivation, but soon he convinced his father for flower farming (Marigold, Chrysanthemum, Gladiolus, Rose, &amp; Local Rose) and in 1998 he started it on a small patch of land (2 Marla \u2243 25.2929 square metres).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0fa4b8;\">\u201cWhen my father agreed, at that time I was totally steadfast about floriculture and decided to expand it with the time and reap good profit from it. Although there was no good market nearby to sell the flowers still I was determined and didn\u2019t want to step back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>When the time of harvesting came, at that time Jaswant Singh visited the houses in his nearby villages in which marriage ceremonies or any celebrations were going to be held, and took the contract of decorating their houses and car with the flowers. In this way, he earned a profit of Rs. 8000 to 9,000 over his income. Seeing the progress of Jaswant, his father and other family members were very happy and this boosted up the courage of Jaswant Singh. Gradually he expanded flower farming in 2 \u00bd Kanal and presently it\u2019s in 3 acres. Time-to-time, Jaswant bring some new flowers and plants from the nursery, to add variety to his farm. Now, he has also started preparing nursery of flowers, from which he is earning a good income and even today also he manages the marketing part on my own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Well Jaswant Singh\u2019s hard work did not go in vain, for the tremendous efforts he has been awarded Surjit Singh Dhillon State Award (2014)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #f0690e;\"><strong>Future Plan:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><em>In future, Jaswant Singh is planning to expand floriculture and also venture in the field of poly-house farming by taking land on lease.<\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Message<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #27c42f;\"><strong>&#8220;Instead of depending on the government plans and subsidies, farmers should start putting their own effort in agriculture.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[309,344,2422,338,2425,728,343,2423,2424,345,53,385,122,1208],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-with-image","tag-apni-kheti","tag-chrysanthemum","tag-ferozepur","tag-floriculture","tag-flower-business","tag-flower-farming","tag-gladiolus","tag-jaswant-singh","tag-local-rose","tag-marigold","tag-organic-farming","tag-progressive-farming","tag-punjab","tag-rose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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