Transcript shripad dabholkar - Xavier Institute of Management

SHRIPAD DABHOLKAR
www.Prayogparivar.com
SHRIPAD DABHOLKAR
• Born in 1925, a man with vivid
ideas
• In earlier days of career he was an
educator, having network of
teaching institutes.
• 1955 he turned rural educator,
adopted a non-conventional
method of teaching rural people
Conti……
• Joined Mauni Vidyapeeth where
non institutionalized training was
practiced
• Inclined towards rural
development
• Believes in creativity and
originality and want to
revolutionize the existing
cultivation practice
• Established prayog parivar or
Clan of experimenters. The root
meaning of word "Prayog" is,
"Pra" means, 'Going ahead' and
"Yog" is Yukti or Knack.
• It was a network of 10,000 poor
and marginalized farmers
• He experimented new methods in
Agriculture,
Horticulture, Sericulture, Rearing
goats and rabbits
Every experiment conducted by him
has a pragmatic approach, he would
start with resources that are
available to a below poverty line
farmers.
He and his Prayog parivar worked
specially for grapes and
revolutionized every aspect of grape
cultivation in Maharashtra. eg,
spacing the vines, training them,
thinning girdling and preservation
etc.. This result in increase in cultivation
of grapes amounting to Rs 500 crores
that too in drought prone areas of
Maharashtra
• His pioneered contributions in
improving the cultivation
practices of
• Growing sweet potatoes only in
half decomposed leaf moulds
heaps
• Raising pineapple in heaps of leaf
mould
• He discovered that half ripe
papaya fruits provide best
nutrients to egg laying poultry
• He found that the slurry of animal
dung and urine, or fish waste
works miracles in plant growth. In
this slurry he used to grow
watermelons on it ,which were
same in nutrients and quality
when compared to normal
cultivation.
Experiment on lemon cultivation
• He used to grow lemons
throughout the year on a very
small size (only ten sq. ft canopy
size) lemon plant in the heap of
special soil made from composted
kitchen and garden waste with the
slurry. He used to get about 250
lemons on this Lemon plant. He
tried custard apple, fig fruit plants
and later grapes as mobile
tabletop plants.
Received national award for
implementing innovative practice
in cultivation.
He believes is making the best use
of locally available resources with
technical know how to maximize
output.
He set up a small model garden,
very productive self-sustained
rainforest type multi-tier garden
which became a sensation to
everyone in the locality (educated,
uneducated, literate, illiterate) and
to every one who came for short
long term training courses in his
institute. It inspire them how to
manage waste and extract best
out of waste.
• He proves that one set of nutrients
from plants of one type for the
next round, obtaining different
nutrients from different parts -- the
roots, the leaves, the stems, husk,
bagasse -- of the plant, obtaining
different nutrients by composting
the plant at different stages of its
growth .
• He has established that a family of
five with just a quarter of an acre
can grow enough to acquire a
living standard in terms of
nourishment and income of a
middle class family -- and this has
been established not in theory but
in the plots themselves, and not
just by him but by farmers and
families which have adopted the
methods he has pioneered
• He delivered the speech in Delhi
“prosperity with equity” in this he
emphasize that “the best and the
latest of the modern science and
its work results have failed to
reach the last person. Then why
not take the very essence of the
latest and the best of modern
science straight to the average
grass root people and hand it over
to them”.
• He was first to enlighten the real
problem before the nation is
'Waste mind' and 'Waste land' and
he emphasize that if there is no
'Waste mind' there will be no
'Waste land' and set examples that
ventures like organic farming and
vermicomposting had a future
potential to get established and
carry it all over India
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