Abdul Khader Nadakattin (born 1953) is a grassroots agricultural innovator, a social worker and an environmentalist from Dharwad in the Indian state of Karnataka.
[1] In the year 2022 The Government of India honored Abdul Khader Nadakattin, awarding the Padma Shri for his contributions in the field of grassroots innovation.
[2] Abdul Khader Nadakattin was born in 1953 in the town of Annigeri, located in the Dharwad district in the state of Karnataka, India.
Due to lack of sufficient water, the idea failed miserably as the seedlings dried out and died.
[citation needed] Enthused by the initial success, Nadakattin took a series of steps to expand and strengthen his practices.
The device had a system wherein due to the sliding action of the pegs that were tapered at the end, the seed gets thrown out of the tamarind pod.