Dharamveer Kamboj, from a rickshaw puller to a guest at Rashtrapati Bhavan

The portable machine is capable of extracting juices and essence from aloe vera, amla, jamun and other herbs and processes them for making various products.  

It offers a condensation mechanism which helps in extraction of essence, extracts, gel from flowers and medicinal plants for herbal applications.  

“It took me 11 months to develop this machine. In 2008, officials from National Innovation Foundation visited me at my village Damla to see a demo of my machine. And then I got the idea of taking it to the masses,” Kamboj, who is spending 20 days from July one in the President's House, said.

As soon as he recovered from the accident, Kamboj started interacting with farmers and began conducting various experiments on organic farming.

He owes his love for herbs to his mother whom he used to watch in his childhood collecting kesu (Butea monosperma) flowers for making colours for Holi.

Kamboj was the first farmer in his area to cultivate hybrid tomatoes and witness a record production. He also developed some innovative devices like battery operated spraying machine using a tape recorder motor and an insect trapping device.

He also tried new cropping patterns by cultivating coriander, bottle gourd and sugarcane at the same time.  During his stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan, Kamboj will be meeting several ministry officials for beginning mass production of his innovation.