Name : Sudhakarbhai Kauchabhai Gauli 
District & State : Dang, Gujarat
Category : Herbal products
Award : Appreciation
Award Function : 4th National Grassroots Innovation Awards
Award Year : 2007
Innovation Description
Background
Living in a small tribal village called Vanki, Sudhakarbhai (45) is a traditional herbal healer with specific therapies for various livestock ailments. His family consists of six people; his wife assists him in preparing various herbal therapies, eldest son works as a wireman, the younger one looks after 11 acres of their ancestral land in Maharashtra where the youngest son and daughter are studying. He has around six acres of land where he cultivates Nagli, Paddy, Pigeon pea and groundnut. He also has some cattle head to take care of. He is quite famous for his herbal treatments in the area and is easily approachable. He even has visitors from nearby Surat. His family traditionally has been involved in administering herbal medicines for curing various livestock ailments and he learnt the same through the elders. Realising the importance of this knowledge he made extra efforts to imbibe the maximum from his elders. Sudhakarbhai gives herbal medicines for poultry ailments, bloat in animals and diabetes in human.
http://nif.org.in/innovation/Traditional_Livestock_Healer/382