{"id":17611,"date":"2015-03-15T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17611"},"modified":"2015-03-15T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T08:26:15","slug":"the-golden-daughter-of-a-farming-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=17611","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018golden daughter\u2019 of a farming family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Geetha N, who secured 13 gold medals, and Kunduru Bharath, who got 7 gold medals, at the 49th convocation of the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bengaluru on Saturday.\u2014 Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Geetha N. graduated with a record 13 gold medals<\/h2>\n

All that this poor farming family from Doddaballapur taluk has is one acre of land which fetches them just Rs. 11,000 a year.<\/p>\n

But, they have a \u2018golden daughter\u2019. Geetha N., daughter of Narasimha Murthy and Chikkathayamma, graduated with a record number of 13 gold medals at the convocation of the University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore here on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents were not in a position to bear my educational expenses when I got a seat for an agricultural course. So I took an educational loan to support my studies,\u201d says Geetha, who is now pursuing her post-graduate studies in Agricultural Genetics and Plant Breeding with a fellowship from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.<\/p>\n

Excitedly showing her parents the box of gold medals, Geetha said, \u201cThough my parents did not have money, they did everything for me to excel in studies and I owe my success to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having experienced the difficulties of a marginal farming family, her dream is to become a researcher in the field of genetics and plant breeding in a bid to do something good for farmers in distress. \u201cI am pained to see farmers in distress, especially owing to crash in prices. I want to do something for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Geetha also has plans to set up a non-governmental organisation to help farmers. \u201cPlease do not quit farming as that is our backbone,\u201d is her plea to youth who quit agriculture to move to cities in search of menial jobs. Similarly, A.P.-based Kundur Bharath, who graduated with seven gold medals, also hails from a farming family. He too wants to serve the farming community by becoming a researcher.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru \/ by B.S. Satish Kumar \/ Bengaluru – March 15th, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geetha N. graduated with a record 13 gold medals All that this poor farming family from Doddaballapur taluk has is one acre of land which fetches them just Rs. 11,000 a year. But, they have a \u2018golden daughter\u2019. Geetha N., daughter of Narasimha Murthy and Chikkathayamma, graduated with a record number of 13 gold medals … Continue reading The \u2018golden daughter\u2019 of a farming family<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-records-all","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions\/17616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}