Dr. Siddheshwar Deshmukh received the most prestigious “Indian Achiever’s Award 2022-23”
Photo: Dr. Siddheshwar Deshmukh (Left Side) with Gurudev Shri Shri Ravishankar, Founder, The Art of Living (Right Side)
“The way to get things done is to simply Begin”
A passionate and innovative agriculture scientist with an agriculture background from a small village. Aiming to work for Indian Farmers towards sustainable and profitable growth. With an experience of 6+ years in vegetable breeding in the seed industry, Siddheshwar worked with Akur Seeds an Indian Seed company for 3 years as Vegetable Breeder. Later with well-known MNC, Syngenta India Ltd as Breeding Project Lead- South East Asia for Hot Pepper breeding, and was recognized & awarded for best hybrids development in the green fresh segment during the period. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Horticulture, Master’s, and Graduation in Agriculture.
It all started with a vision to be an Agri Entrepreneur for developing a high-yielding hybrid of vegetable as well as agricultural crops for sustainable and prosperous growth of farmers. He started a seed company “Vitthala Seeds & Agri Solutions” and currently working on germplasm evaluation and line development in vegetable crops for hybrid development.
Focusing on the health of mother earth/soil is of utmost importance in agriculture, so he started a firm named “Vithai Multiservices- Product Deve. & Manufacturing”-providing services on Agri inputs, Scientific activities, consultation, and its beautification including private/dense forest development, the nursery of ornamental, flowering, and forest plants by providing employment to many families.
Dr. Siddheshwar’s major milestones:
- Ph.D. degree in Horticulture with a specialization in Vegetable Science.
- Published 10+ research papers.
- Qualified National level ICAR JRF with AIR 171.
- Qualified for ASRB NET examination twice.
- Received “Gracias Award” for best hybrid development.
- Successfully guided many students for the ICAR JRF examination.
- Taught many subjects while working as Assistant Professor.
- Life member of many agricultural professional societies
- Working as an editorial board member for National and International Journals in the field of agriculture.
We congratulated him on his success.