{"id":5368,"date":"2019-09-07T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2020-05-05T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:11:43","slug":"amarjeet-singh-dhillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarjeet Singh Dhillon"},"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\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Amarjeet Singh Dhillon&url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" 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\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" 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\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/&title=Amarjeet Singh Dhillon\" 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\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" 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\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/&title=Amarjeet Singh Dhillon\" 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%2Famarjeet-singh-dhillon%2F&name=Amarjeet+Singh+Dhillon\" 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=Amarjeet%20Singh%20Dhillon&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.apnikheti.com\/progressivefarmers\/amarjeet-singh-dhillon\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #de0b8a;\"><strong>Leaving M. Tech in middle of his studies, why this young man started farming?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Every parents\u2019 dream is that their children should get a good job so that their future is secure. Similar was the dream of Amarjeet Singh Dhillon\u2019s parents. So they taught him in a good school for his good future and got him enrolled in higher education for B.Tech mechanical. After completing graduation in Mechanical Engineering, Amarjeet decided to pursue his Masters in M.Tech. and also got admitted. But he was not having any particular interest in the study of M.Tech., so he decided to leave the studies in between.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Amarjeet&#8217;s family had 12 acres of land on which his father and brother used to practice conventional agriculture. For one year Amarjeet also used to do farming with his father, but due to being a young man, Amarjeet did not want to get enrolled himself in the traditional agriculture. To further increase his knowledge in agriculture, he started visiting Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>He joined the Young Farmer Course in PAU. After the completion of course, he decided to do horticulture. He first started fruit farming at his farm named <strong>&#8220;Green Energy Farm&#8221;<\/strong>.. Later on, he also started vegetables cultivation, flower farming and beekeeping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Within one year, I decided to grow only fruits and vegetables leaving all other kinds of farming, because the marketing of fruits and vegetables is easily done in the same local market. It helps in getting daily living like a shopkeeper <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Amarjeet Singh Dhillon<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Amarjeet has set up a time-table for the whole of the year, according to which he harvests the crops sown in different months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Amarjeet does not do organic farming. At first he tries to control insect-pests and diseases using organic methods only but if further needed, he use sprays as recommended by the PAU in recommended amount. Even today, Amarjeet participates in all KVK, university and district level training programs. Whenever he gets in trouble, he always seek advice from PAU experts only.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">According to me, fruits or vegetables should be plucked before spraying and there should be a minimum of 24-48 hours gap between fruit plucking and applying spray <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2013 Amarjeet Singh Dhillon<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Achievements<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amarjeet has received many honors at the state level and national level, some of which are mentioned below:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Minister Award from PAU (2006)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">State level Award from ATMA (2009)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Award in Agriculture Summit, Chappadchidi<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zonal award from International Institute of Vegetable Research (2018)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Award from PUSA (2018)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Innovative Farmer Award from IARI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Future Planning<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In the future, Amarjeet Singh Dhillon wants to focus all his attention on the self marketing and processing of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Message<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;Those young people who want to get themselves enrolled into horticulture, should first get proper education and training in agriculture. They should start farming at very small level rather than investing huge lump-sum in the starting. They must read agricultural related books and should always keep learning.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Full Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3105,3110,2486,3106,387,3100,3103,3109,3101,3107,3099,51,3098,3104,386,3108,3102],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medium-with-image","tag-agriculture-summit","tag-amarjeet-singh-dhillon","tag-atma","tag-chief-minister-award","tag-fruits","tag-innovative-farmer-award","tag-international-institute-of-vegetable-research","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-national-award-from-pusa","tag-pau","tag-processing","tag-progressive-farmer","tag-self-marketing","tag-state-award","tag-vegetables","tag-young-farmer-course","tag-zonal-award"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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