Farmer of Satna district kept 200 types of paddy, then got Padma Shri… Know about this personality

Report- Pradeep Kashyap

Satna: Farmer Babulal Dahiya, a resident of Satna district, who was awarded the Padma Shri, has been striving for years to promote indigenous seeds and organic farming, Babulal Dahiya has collected about 200 varieties of paddy and many types of indigenous seeds, Padma Shri Babulal Dahiya has been praised by the President and the Prime Minister. Babulal Dahiya is also a good writer along with the farmer. Emerge as a symbol.

Collection of paddy, coarse grains and agricultural equipment in the museum:

Babulal Dahiya, an 80-year-old farmer living in a small village Pithorabad under Uchehra tehsil, just 25 km from the district headquarters, has done what is an inspiration for the farmers in his life, farmer Babulal Dahiya has a unique museum in his house. Made, inside this museum, apart from about 300 types of indigenous seeds, there are about 200 items including wooden tools, iron tools, pottery and articles, bamboo utensils and materials, metal utensils, stone utensils and tools, leather items. Has collected more than instruments-utensils, tools and weapons. Farmer Babulal Dahiya has been awarded the Padma Shri award for this indigenous seed museum, Babulal is a farmer as well as a writer, he also writes articles, poems, idioms and proverbs, if he believes he is talking about indigenous seeds or He mentions things related to him in his poems and articles.

Due to the Green Revolution, traditional cereals have gone out of trend:

Padmashree Babulal Dahiya told that we have a seed bank, in which about 300 types of seeds are stored, including 200 types of indigenous paddy, 18 types of indigenous wheat, coarse grains Kodo, Kutki, Sambha, Kandav, Jowar, Maize There are indigenous seeds of etc., and there are also seeds of pulses and oilseeds crops, but all these are traditional, some of these are also vegetables which are traditional. According to Babulal Dahiya, when the Green Revolution came in the 70s, we saw that earlier we had all the traditional grains, but with the advent of the Green Revolution, there was a loss that all our traditional grains went out of trend.

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