List of Successful Organic Farmers in India. All are award winners for their Innovations and/or High Yield without agro-chemicals.

List of Successful Organic Farmers in India. All are award winners for their Innovations and/or High Yield without agro-chemicals.

Note: This is a dynamic list and gets revised periodically. The last revision was made on 06 Mar 2010.

S. No.	Name and brief address	Phone no. in India	Award/comments
Andhra Pradesh
1.	Nagaratnam Naidu, Hyderabad	09440424463, 040-24063963	Babu Jagjivan Ram Award by ICAR in 2008, Highest rice productivity with SRI under organic system.
2.	Narasimha Raju, G. Gudiwada, Krishna dist. Andhra Pradesh	09247314337	“Padmashri” by the Government of India, in 2009, for technical developments in agriculture
Gujrat
3	Bhaskar Save, Deheri, Umbergaon dist.	0260-2562126	Award winner in CA and later in OF of Gujrat Government’s, 2002
Karnataka
4	Abhay Mutalik Desai, Tilakwadi, Belgaum	09900775633	Krishi Pundit award in 2005-2006
5	Ashok Tubachi, Tilakwadi, Belgaum	09448126953	Krishi Pundit award in 2006-2007
6	Basavaraju, B., Santeshwara, Hasan dist.	09611731967	Best farmer award 2000. State-level G. Made Gowda Pratisthan award in 2008
7	aSuresh Desai, Chikodi, Belgaum dist. Karnataka	09480448256 08338-262056	Krishi Pundit award, 2005. High sugarcane productivity (about 14 t ha-1), plus dry turmeric (about 2.9 t ha-1), plus soybean (about 2.4 t ha-1) plus groundnut (about 1.0 t ha-1) - all three as intercrop.
Kerala
8	Viswan, T.S., Karikadu, Cherthala, Alappuzha	09447265757	Karshaka Mitra Award, 1997. Vegetables as major crops
Maharashtra
9	Manohar Parchure, Amboda, Wardha dist., Maharashtra	09422152824	2003: Sheti Mitra Award
10	Diliprao Deshmukh, Maharashtra	9881497092	2001: Krishi Bhooshan Award, 2002: Sheti Mitra Award
11	Manoj Jawandal, Katol, Nagpur dist., Maharashtra	09822515913	Krishi Bhooshan 2008
12	Prakash Kochar, Hinganghat, Wardha dist. Maharashtra	07153-244024	Krishi Pandit 2001
13	Prasad Deo, Nanded,	09921814519	Marathwada Bhooshan 2007
14	Raosaheb Dagadkar, Amangaon, Amravati	07222-238307	Krishi Bhooshan 2000
15	Subhash Sharma, Dorli, Yavatmal	09422869620	Award winner in CA and later in Org. Farming (“Krishi Bhooshan” in 2002)
16	Vishwasrao Patil, Mhasvad, Pachora, Jalgaon dist.	09763475764	Krishi Bhooshan Award, 2006
	Shri Ghanshyam Chopde, Wardha
Madhya Pradesh
17.	Deepak Suchde, Bajwada, Dewas dist.	09826054388	Vasantrao Naik’s Pratishthan Award 2005. Maximum diversity ever seen on a farm.
Uttar Pradesh
18.	Shri Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi Village Tadia, Post Jakhini, Dist. Varanasi, U.P.	9956941993	Has developed improved varieties of wheat, paddy, arhar, moong, peas and vegetables. Given seeds free to about 20 lakh farmers, Awarded by the president APJ Abdul Kalaam in 2007.

Sources: (a) Personal contact with the farmers, (b) contacts who know the farmer personally, (c) ‘Organic Source Book’ 2009, Other India Press Goa.

Om Rupela

former Scientist, ICRISAT, oprupela@gmail.com

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