Maa Danteshwari Herbal Products Kondagaon Aurvedik farmer Rajaram Tripathi who was conferred with Agriculture leadership Awards for year 2012 denied taking any kind of financial assistance from any bank.
I have not taken any kind of agricultural loan from anywhere, Tripathi claimed during a press conference on Thursday.
Tripathi hailing from Kondagaon said that, “some people are trying to dent my image by spreading wrong words that I have not taken loan to achieve the growth in agriculture, however I have not taken any loan from any bank so far.”
Tripathi further said, that he had created a niche in organic herbal farming by cultivating Safed Musli also famous as local Viagra in over 1,000 acres of land in his home district Kondagaon. I quit the job of bank officer in 2011 and took up full time farming of growing Indian Spider Plant (Safed Musli) in my village. Based on my phenomenal success government of Chhattisgarh conferred the award to me, he said.