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Bengaluru: Shivayogi Revanasiddappa Byakod of Ranna Belagali village near Mahalingpur town of Mudhol Taluk in Bagalkote district is an unassuming personality. He is a postgraduate in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad(UASD). But these qualifications are for official records or namesake. The numerous lessons he has learnt and the knowledge he has acquired from the University of the World are unimaginable. Likewise, the number of farmers benefited by his Sneha Krishi Agri Clinic & Agro Services Centre in the region is vast enough to list out. He is a testament to a series of experiments, failures, pain, and agony, struggling to make a role model's marvellous success story. Perhaps, it is high time he made himself free to pen his motivating path to the road of success for hundreds and thousands of peasants.   In an informal chat sometime back at his down to ground farmhouse surrounded by lush green Sugarcane fields with constant screaming ...

Bengaluru: Basavaraj Ullagaddi is an unassuming young person, given his appearance. However, his accomplishments, despite being a marginal farmer and a daily wage earner, have enabled him to become a prosperous farmer. A native of Haralur village: Basavaraj Ullagaddi is a native of Haralur village in Mudhol Taluk of Bagalkote district and a small peasant with just 1.5-02 acres of land, and is managing about 2.5 acres of land under the system of sharecropping. In all, he is managing about 4.5 acres of land holdings apart from being a daily wage earner. Two lakhs gross income from Garlic: Basavaraj Ullagaddi is growing Turmeric and sugarcane intercropped with Garlic in his meagre land holdings. From just 18 gunta of his land, he has made a gross income of Rs. Two lakhs by growing Garlic as an intercrop in Sugarcane. Four and a half lakhs from Sugarcane: Basavaraj Ullagaddi had also grown Sugarcane in an area of 2.5-03 acres last year and reaped the crop to the quantum of 150 tons, fe...