Farmer meets Guv with 5.5 ft bottle gourd

Gandhinagar: Mansinh Gurjar, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh, came to meet Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat with a five and a half feet long bottle gourd grown by him.

Mansinh Gurjar, from Gardha village of Bankhedi taluka of Hoshangabad came to Raj Bhawan to meet Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat with a bottle gourd of local species which was 5.5 feet long. He also presented samples of various local seeds and agricultural products developed and preserved by him. He said that he preserves and cultures local seeds of 600 species.

The Gujarat governor gave him a check of Rs 51 thousand as an award. Mansinhbhai said that is into organic farming with growing local seeds for 15 years. He has been preserving and cultivating local seeds since he was 15-year old, he said. He has a collection of the local seeds of 230 local species of rice, 108 species of wheat, and 150 species of vegetables. He has developed some species by himself such as white karela, red bhindi, black chilli, purple flat beans.