Another name for sacrifice and penance is farmer. The farmer keeps doing austerities to produce gold from the soil throughout his life. Scorching sun, bitter cold and torrential rains also do not break his practice. It is important to note that about seventy percent of our country’s population still lives in villages, whose main occupation is agriculture. But even today the government is unable to take any strong and strong steps for the cooperation and development of this large population. In such a situation, it is the moral responsibility of all intellectuals of the society to provide all possible support to the farmers from their level.
And to fulfill this responsibility well, new generation of youth are also coming forward. One such youth Prateek Bajaj. Born in the house of a property dealer in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, Pratik decided to do CA after completing his 12th standard. Prateek’s elder brother was undergoing training at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra to start a dairy business. One day, when the symbol reached the Science Center suddenly, he saw vermicompost being built there. He became interested in it and then learned the tricks of making it. However, his CA studies were still on.
During the last year of CA’s studies, when Prateek came home on leave, he saw that the cow and buffalo dung that came out of the brother’s dairy farm went waste, it was used in the fields in the normal way. He felt that by converting it into vermicompost, with the good use of manure, money can also be made. With this idea, he decided to step into the business world with the aim of benefiting the farmers as well as their own income.
Prior to starting the business, he did six months of deep research on different scientific methods of making vermicompost and then laid the foundation of an agricultural startup called Allied Biotech. Prateek says that when I told the family about my business idea, they were not sure that I could do business successfully. But when I sold my first vermicompost, he was convinced.
After the initial success, he also got the support of the family members and then started preparing the vermi compost in his seven bigha’s ancestral land. Not only this, they also started organic farming through it. Along with waste management, he also started work on how to convert it into compost. Prateek also trains farmers to make vermicompost for free to promote organic farming. Before his effort, farmers used to spend Rs 4500 on every acre of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, now they have to spend only Rs 1,000. Not only this, there is no harm to the land as well as the crop.
Today, Pratik is trying to make the brand named “Yeh Lo Khad” under the banner of Allied Biotech in all the districts of UP including Noida, Ghaziabad, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly. For your information, we want to tell you that his current business is doing a turnover of Rs 12 lakhs annually.
If we look at the success of the symbol, we get the inspiration to move forward with passion. If we proceed with passion in our life then nothing can stop us from climbing the stairs of success.