Two brainy Bihari farmer's recorded a yield of paddy and potato through organic method beaten Netherland and China

 

Nitish kumar organically grown potatoes

 

 
 Sumant kumar of Darveshpura, who followed the 
 Sri Vidhi technique and set record of higest yeild for Paddy cultivation.


Two brainy Bihari farmer's model of organic farming and giving them the pat of the superlative degree was none other than the Hyderabad-based Centre for Sustainable Agriculture's executive director G V Ramanjaneyulu.
The two brainy Bihari farmer's hailing from, again coincidentally, from the CM's  own Nalanda district, came during Aamir's popular TV programme, 'Satya Meva Jayate', which this Sunday focused on the harmful effects on humans of the chemicals used to propel and protect the produce in agriculture fields. The debate and discussions sent the shivers down the spine: Consumers of such produce end up accumulating four to five times the permissible limit of pesticides in their bodies.
Organic farming gives quality produce that do not cause such health hazards and the quantity of the yield is also as high as chemically-boosted yield. "Any examples?" asked Aamir and pat came the reply from the agri scientist: Potato farmer Nitish and paddy farmer Sumant Kumar of Bihar have taken the lead and comprehensively beaten their counterparts in the Netherlands and China.
cultivating potato through the organic method (without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides), Nitish recorded a yield of 72.9 tonnes per hectare while the previous best yield record was held by a group of the Netherlands farmers who produced 45 tonnes per hectare. Sumant harvested 224 quintals of paddy per hectare beating the previous record of Chinese farmer Longping who produced 190 quintals per hectare.
The great admirer of Bihar farmers, has, however, a word of advice for both the state's farmers and the policymakers: The farmers should learn from the mistakes of Punjab where the Green Revolution, while increasing the yield, has left behind deadly health hazards and depleting water table. Owing to the excessive use of chemical fertilizers, the incidence of cancer in Punjab has assumed mind-boggling proportions. One out of every five Punjab farmer suffers from the deadly disease, the scientist said.
"Go for tenancy reforms if you have to really sustain the Bihar version of the 'Green Revolution'," was the scientist's message to the Bihar policymakers as tiny plots and absentee ownership of land spawn stumbling blocks to proper agricultural growth in the state. A strong advocate of SRI (System of Root Intensification) method, the scientist also favours changes in cropping pattern in the south Bihar areas where water is scarce. Replace paddy with pulse crops in such areas as over-withdrawal of groundwater creates more problems than it solves, he says
 Young farmer, Sumant Kumar, produced the record yield, beating the world record, held by China’s Yuan Longping, of 224 quintals of paddy produced per hectare. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has certified Sumant Kumar’s record.
The SRI (system of rice intensification) method of paddy cultivation – part of organic farming – was introduced in the state three years ago.