Sabotage of Dalit intellecuatalism and their intellectual and property rights must be dealt with serious legal bindings and conciliatory actions, otherwise, the hindu's will continue to rob one's own rights their backyards.
This agricultural farmer in the picture above is a dalit intellectual farmer and he is from a small village, he is well known locally for his novel development of great rice types.
He has been toiling in his land for years, worked hard and deligently developed techniques and approaches that finaly was conducive for him to develop a new variety rice called HMT, further more this initial finding enabled him to develop half a dozen new variety of rice that is a blockbuster seller in northern India.
As usual in India, this man's ability to own his own creativity was in danger ever since he developed the newer rice types. Robbery in his land and house was a regular affair, besides his properties getting stolen by outsiders and neighbours, the products cultivated in his land too was under attack. People kept on stealing things, beyond all this petty cimilaity lies the huge robberer, that is the local university scientists. They wanted to find out what is going on from this villagers land, so they wanted to check out the developed rice variety, took some samples of rice from Dadaji and investigated ran some tests in the name rice purification (what the heck, rice purification, don't they have a better biological or biotechnological or agricultural terms) in their laboratory (find all the references and citations in the following news articles).
While none of the agricultuaralists came forward to honor or recognize this gentleman, as he was born in a poor family and hindu contaminted India as a dalit, nor the governmental agencies helped him in the appropriate ways and means.
So, everything boils down to one fact, he is a dalit, hindu's cannot stand a dalit coming up in life or dalit beeing creative, they either will not recognize to start with, or they will attack as it is happening? or they will intellectually robe his intellectualism (which is also happening in the highest place, the university) or they will rob such geniuses from dalit society and own as their own Brahma? LoL....!
This is a saga of 3000 years of hindu tradition to steal, tamper and loot any creativity that comes out of dalits.
So, I was not surprised by this great Farmer Dadaji Ramji Khobargade's fight to own his creativity. For practical purposes I drawn the weaknesses as follows, meaning, this is how things are in the villages. The first weakness is he lives in a village, no body gives a damn about a villager, the second weakness is he is a dalit whom the hindu people ruined them for the last 3000 years and the next weakness is he is not a PhD or some sort of academic person with other qualifications that would have caught someone's eye. So, if not on his own by someone's help Dadaji would have been identified and recognized.
Right now, it seems like no one seriously tried to help him to legitimize and legalize his inventions to make it equitable and expandable. Not a single human or Indian wants to identify the talents at least for money making purposes, wow....I can't realy believe what goes in India.
I wish from this blog or by bringing Dadaji's novel and scholarly work into the international audiences and to dalit scholars, I am hoping to see some fruitful initiatives. I would like to bring some immediate and equitable attention paid to his hard work and the innovative techniques of Dadaji. In the meantime, it is a shame that none of the farmers advocate came forward to help
Dadaji, what happen to those freaking ladies go fast over Narmada dam or such things, are these woman activists are real or for only hindus, what kind of village reformers are these ladies. What happened to those self-procaliamed high esteemed scientists like Swaminathan, who did not bather to look into this matter.
Dadaji, what happen to those freaking ladies go fast over Narmada dam or such things, are these woman activists are real or for only hindus, what kind of village reformers are these ladies. What happened to those self-procaliamed high esteemed scientists like Swaminathan, who did not bather to look into this matter.
Worst of all , there were no dalit activist or leader came forward to fix the mundane paper work and the universitis cheating behavior to steal away the novel rice variety and its creativity. Dadaji developed 7 varieties of new rice types, which is deliciously popular in the northern states of India.
Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade (65) grew up in a small forest village called Nanded in Naghbid taluka of Chandipur district in Maharashtra. He left school after the 3rd standard due to adverse economic conditions and also because his help was necessary in the farm. Currently, he is the only earning member of his family, which comprises his son (who does not earn due to his ill health), his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. He owns 1.5 acres of land and his income is Rs.12, 000 per annum. At present Dadaji Ramaji also cultivates three acres, once given to his son by a relative.He had to sell two acres due to the illness of his son. Occasionally he works as a daily wage labourer to support his seven-member family.
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05Jan07
68-yr-old Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade is a Indian Buddhist farmer with a grouse. Ten years ago he shot to fame for breeding a variety of rice called Hmt which went on to become one of the highest yielding varieties in the region.It even became popular in neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In Maharashtra it is grown in over 6,88,000 hectares reports NDTV. Dadaji Khobragade, HMT Rice Variety Developer” When my neighbours took it to the market to sell it, the traders could immediately tell this was different variety and asked for its name. One of the farmers was wearing an Hmt watch and decided to call the rice variety that. Eversince it been called Hmt rice”. Grassroots innovation like Khobragade’s are classic example of necessity being the mother of invention. And yet he is a bitter man today. While the seeds he helped develop sell for as much as 1500 rupees a quintal he’s got nothing. Leave alone money even recognition seems to be taking its time finding him.
05Jan07
68-yr-old Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade is a Indian Buddhist farmer with a grouse. Ten years ago he shot to fame for breeding a variety of rice called Hmt which went on to become one of the highest yielding varieties in the region.It even became popular in neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In Maharashtra it is grown in over 6,88,000 hectares reports NDTV. Dadaji Khobragade, HMT Rice Variety Developer” When my neighbours took it to the market to sell it, the traders could immediately tell this was different variety and asked for its name. One of the farmers was wearing an Hmt watch and decided to call the rice variety that. Eversince it been called Hmt rice”. Grassroots innovation like Khobragade’s are classic example of necessity being the mother of invention. And yet he is a bitter man today. While the seeds he helped develop sell for as much as 1500 rupees a quintal he’s got nothing. Leave alone money even recognition seems to be taking its time finding him.
NANDED/CHANDRAPUR: Thefts at Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade’s one-acre farm are a common occurrence. “Last month,” says the 66-year-old farmer, “someone stole two pumpkins. Earlier, thieves stole my wooden cots.” But these, he says, are nothing compared to the grand heist: the robbing of credit for developing some of central India’s most popular rice varieties.
The culprit is a premier agriculture university of Maharashtra that claims to have “purified and refined” the parent breed. But Dadaji, who was bestowed with an award by the National Innovation Foundation of India at the hands of President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam this year, vows he’s not giving up his fight for the credit line.
The culprit is a premier agriculture university of Maharashtra that claims to have “purified and refined” the parent breed. But Dadaji, who was bestowed with an award by the National Innovation Foundation of India at the hands of President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam this year, vows he’s not giving up his fight for the credit line.
By VIVEK DESHPANDE
Two months ago, The Indian Express had reported how Dadaji Khobragade, the developer of seven popular rice varieties, was living a life of penury even as the Maharashtra government’s Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth (PKV) passed off his HMT variety in a ‘‘purified’’ form as PKV HMT. And now that Dadaji is seeking to apply for a once-in-a-lifetime award of Rs 2 lakh from the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), the PKV is playing spoilsport again. The bone of contention now is a copy of the Varietal Research Proposal—a record of the development of the rice varieties—which Dadaji needs to submit to the NRDC for the award.
‘‘I have had the NRDC letter for many months now. I met PKV vice-chancellor Sharad Nimbalkar at Chandrapur last month. He asked me to approach the PKV’s Rice Breeder Centre at Sindewahi. But they refused to part with the document,’’ Dadaji said.
Suspicions that this isn’t just another whirl of the bureaucratic merry-go-round arise because of Dadaji’s past run-ins with PKV. The HMT Sona—one of the seven varieties Dadaji developed over 20 years, a feat recognised by the National Innovation Foundation’s second all-India prize—was picked up by the PKV, ‘‘purified’’ and sent back to the market as PKV HMT.
Two months ago, The Indian Express had reported how Dadaji Khobragade, the developer of seven popular rice varieties, was living a life of penury even as the Maharashtra government’s Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth (PKV) passed off his HMT variety in a ‘‘purified’’ form as PKV HMT. And now that Dadaji is seeking to apply for a once-in-a-lifetime award of Rs 2 lakh from the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), the PKV is playing spoilsport again. The bone of contention now is a copy of the Varietal Research Proposal—a record of the development of the rice varieties—which Dadaji needs to submit to the NRDC for the award.
‘‘I have had the NRDC letter for many months now. I met PKV vice-chancellor Sharad Nimbalkar at Chandrapur last month. He asked me to approach the PKV’s Rice Breeder Centre at Sindewahi. But they refused to part with the document,’’ Dadaji said.
Suspicions that this isn’t just another whirl of the bureaucratic merry-go-round arise because of Dadaji’s past run-ins with PKV. The HMT Sona—one of the seven varieties Dadaji developed over 20 years, a feat recognised by the National Innovation Foundation’s second all-India prize—was picked up by the PKV, ‘‘purified’’ and sent back to the market as PKV HMT.
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