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Dadaji Khobragade was a school dropout who discovered the highly successful HMT rice variety through years of research on his small farm. HMT rice yields 80% more than conventional varieties and is now grown on 100,000 acres across India. However, the agricultural university claimed Khobragade's variety was "impure" and released it under a new name without giving him credit. It was only through the intervention of organizations like the National Innovation Foundation that Khobragade received due recognition for his innovative rice variety.
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Dadoji Khobragade is an villager who invented/discovered a new kind of rice called HMT.
Dadaji Khobragade was a school dropout who discovered the highly successful HMT rice variety through years of research on his small farm. HMT rice yields 80% more than conventional varieties and is now grown on 100,000 acres across India. However, the agricultural university claimed Khobragade's variety was "impure" and released it under a new name without giving him credit. It was only through the intervention of organizations like the National Innovation Foundation that Khobragade received due recognition for his innovative rice variety.
Dadaji Khobragade was a school dropout who discovered the highly successful HMT rice variety through years of research on his small farm. HMT rice yields 80% more than conventional varieties and is now grown on 100,000 acres across India. However, the agricultural university claimed Khobragade's variety was "impure" and released it under a new name without giving him credit. It was only through the intervention of organizations like the National Innovation Foundation that Khobragade received due recognition for his innovative rice variety.
Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade, who discovered the HMT rice, a highly successful rice variety which yields 80 percent more rice than the conventional variety, is among the most powerful Indian rural entrepreneurs listed by the Forbes magazine. HMT is now grown all over India, on some 1,00,000 acres across five states.
The 70-year old Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade hails from a small forest village called in Naghbid taluka of Chandipur in Nanded district of Maharashtra. He owns 1.5 acres of land and his income is a mere Rs. 12,000 per annum. He sold two acres due to the illness of his son. At present, Khobragade cultivates three acres, once given to his son by a relative. Occasionally, he works as a daily wage labourer to support his seven-member family. Khobragade selected and bred the HMT rice variety from the conventional Patel 3, a popular variety of that time, developed by Dr. J. P. Patel of JNKV Agriculture University, Jabalpur. Khobragade succeeded after five years of continuous research and study done on a small farm owned by him without any support from the scientific community. This is a remarkable achievement for a man who left school after the third standard due to adverse financial conditions at home and because his help was necessary at the farm.
His rice variety has an average yield of 40 to 45 quintals per hectare with high rice recovery (80 percent), better smell and better cooking quality in comparison with the parent variety.
The Big Idea In 1983, Khobragade noticed three yellow-seeded paddy spikes commonly called as lomb planted with the Patel-3 variety of paddy. He picked these three spikes, brought them home and stored them in a plastic bag. The next year he sowed the seeds of this yellow variety separately in his farm. As his farm was close to the jungle, he built up a fence made of thorny bushes around the rice plants, to protect them from wild animals. Noticing the high yield of this variety, he preserved its seeds. The following year he cultivated this variety separately and got nearly ten kilograms of husked rice. On cooking the particular variety of rice he found them to be tastier than the Patel variety. That was the beginning of a long journey. In 1988, he sowed four kilograms of seeds in an area of 10 square feet and produced 400 to 450 kg of rice. The next year, 100 to 150 kg seeds were sown, from which he obtained 50 bags of paddy and he sold the seeds (about 40 bags) to one of the traders at Nagpur. Since the name of the variety was not known, the trader purchased the seeds in the name of Swarna Sona. In 1990, Bhimrao Shinde, a large Nanded landowner, bought 150 kilograms of these seeds and sowed it in four acres of land. He obtained 90 bags of yield and sold the same to a trader from Talodi. The trader named this variety as HMT as HMT watches were very popular at that time and he had recently acquired a new one. Ever since, the name HMT has stuck. Most of the farmers in the Vidharbha region have started growing this variety. This variety is now being marketed in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Discredit Where Due Clearly, this has not been an easy journey for Khobragade. When Khobragade contacted the paddy research centre, they refused to recognize his farm research, as it was not based on scientific research techniques. In 1994, Khobragade was approached by the Siddheshwari Rice Station, a part of Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapith. The Vidyapith took five kilograms of seeds of the new variety under the pretext of experimenting. But in 1998, it released a variety named PKV HMT. The Vidyapith claimed that Khobragades variety was impure and that they purified the local HMT and released it under its new avatar called PKV HMT. To Khobragade, there was no apparent difference between his and Vidyapiths variety. In simple terms, Khobragades innovation was stolen and released in Vidyapiths name. This classic case of academic fraternity refusing to acknowledge the achievements of someone outside the circle was published in The Hindu newspaper. Meena Menon, a journalist from Mumbai wrote to NIF highlighting the saga of struggle that Khobragade had gone through. Vikalpa, an NGO from Nagpur wrote to NIF in December 2002 enclosing detailed information. Khobragade, the innovator complains: Now these new seeds are sold for Rs.1,200 a quintal. What have I got out of all this? The government wants to deprive me of any credit and the variety they claim to have released is exactly like mine - I dont think there is a difference. Professor Anil Gupta of NIF was instrumental in Khobragade getting his due. Dadaji received the National Award from National Innovation Foundation in 2005 and a Diffusion Award for the same in 2009. Harsh reality makes him express his hope of being rewarded for this innovation. He declares his wish of sharing ideas with other farmers and feels If other agriculturists follow my way of working in the field, it would result in higher yielding varieties and better prices for the crop. One cant help but admire his indomitable spirit.
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