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{{short description|Indian farmer}}
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| name = Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav
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| birth_place = [[Guduru, Krishna district]], Andhra Pradesh, India
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>Krishaka Ratna<br>Krishi Ratna<br>Krishi Samrat<br>[[Indian Council of Agricultural Research|ICAR]] Jagjivan Ram Kisan Puraskar
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'''Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav''' is an Indian farmer, known for his achievements in agricultural farming.<ref name="Mr. Greenfingers offers Rs.10 lakh as prize">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/mr-greenfingers-offers-rs10-lakh-as-prize/article4456842.ece | title=Mr. Greenfingers offers Rs.10 lakh as prize | publisher=The Hindu | date=27 February 2013 | access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref>
Hailing from the [[Guduru, Krishna district|Guduru]] village, in [[Krishna district]], in the south Indian state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], he is reported to have recorded harvests such as 7.5 to 8.3 tonnes of ''Pusa [[Basmati]] 1'' rice per hectare, 3 tonnes of [[black gram]] per hectare, and 4 to 5 tonnes of [[Peanut|groundnut]] per hectare.<ref name="A field of his own">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/unshakeable-faith-in-nature-translates-into-bumper-harvests-for-an-andhra-farmer/1/287937.html | title=A field of his own | publisher=India Today | date=15 June 1995 | access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref> He is also known to have grown a [[horsegram]] creeper with over 10,000 branches and a mango tree in his farm yielded 22,000 mangoes in a single season. He has been associated with the expert committees of the Indian Rice Development Council (IRDC) and the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]] (ICAR) as a member and is a recipient of several awards including ''Krishaka Ratna'', ''Krishi Ratna'', ''Krishi Samrat'' and the [[Jagjivan Ram]] Kisan Puraskar (1999) of the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]].<ref name="Farmer extra-ordinant">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2000/05/10/stories/071003y5.htm | title=Farmer extra-ordinant | publisher=The Hindu Business Line | date=10 May 2000 | access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2009, for his contributions to agriculture.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

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