Shyokand has been honoured with the Dr Ramdhan Singh award by the Haryana Government and with the Krishi Rattan award by the PHD Chamber of Chaudhary Charan Singh Agricultural Haryana University.
A bottle gourd measuring 5ft 3 inches was the main attraction on the second day of the three-day Agri Leadership Summit 2015 held at Leisure Valley Ground, Gurgaon sector 29. It was displayed by 15 times Limca Book of Records holder Randhir Singh Shyokand, farmer from Jaganpur village in Kaithal District, Haryana, who claims that it is the longest ever grown bottle gourd in India.
Shyokand talking with iamin said, “I have a record enlisted on page no. 252 of Limca Book of Records 1998. I would be taking a visit to London this year for Guinness world record.’’
He also holds records in producing other vegetables including garlic weighing 700 gm, 19-inch long bitter gourd, 19-inch long calocassia, turnip of 5 kg, 3 kg yam and16-inch long French bean.
Shyokand has been honoured with the Dr Ramdhan Singh award by the Haryana Government and with the Krishi Rattan award by the PHD Chamber of Chaudhary Charan Singh Agricultural Haryana University.
“In 2000, I was sent to Israel by then Haryana CM Chautala. There I worked with agricultural scientists specialised in organic farming. They were growing vegetables in 15 days. I did that in 12 days. One of the lady scientists was even ready to sponsor my citizenship,” asserts Shyokand.
Shyokand says he had to drop out of school after sixth standard due to financial problems. He is glad that one of his sons has carried forward his dream to earn a doctorate degree in agriculture. Both his sons are now deployed as Grade A officers with central government.
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