The natural tiller and friend to the organic farmers

Preserving eco-system is possible through Organic farming: we protect earthworms in the soil and in return they give us soil fertility. In fact, this amazing small creature helps us to make our own “vermicompsot” Bio-fertilizer. A long time ago, we could find EarthWorms in any farming soils...

Water scarcity can be tackled only by Organic Farming

Drought has started spread in Tamil Nadu, and the WaterAid Trust has just dropped a bomb shell regarding global warming in their statement: "Rural Farming communities will struggle to grow food and feed livestock amid soaring temperatures". To combat drought in Tamil Nadu, organic farming could be...

Awareness comes from wisdom; Let us celebrate World Consumer Rights Day

India detains the unfortunate record in terms of diabetes patients’ number; however it is not necessarily due to your diets, sedentary lifestyle, or even from a genetic predisposition, but to the chemicals spread in the vegetables, fruits and rice you eat. Already, in India 28 pesticides were banned...

Reinstate food security on International women's day

             From the organic Indian farms to the street market, thousands of Indian women are working hard to provide to their customers and families the healthiest food possible. However in India, 55% of women are suffering from anemia due to nutritional deficiencies...

Basic cooking Tips from First Organics

Staying healthy is not all about choosing organic food, it is also about cooking. Here are some tips to prepare a delicious and healthy organic meal with @FirstOrganics! Indian food is basically healthy with its huge amount of vegetables, whole grains and rice or small pieces of meat. Generally...

Organic Farming, a Sustainable Business

Seven years ago, Selvi and her family have been trained into organic practices. Unfortunately, the death of their trainer two years before halted their organic production. Her husband moved to city, the mother met some agripreneurs from SAAL, and move once again into organic farming, multi-cropping...

Problems in consuming processed food

           Be healthy, eat organic. Fine, but for most of the consumers the problem remains on the price. Why eating organic food should be expensive if farmers do not use any chemicals or pesticides? The price of organic food is generally fixed according to the...

4 Benefits of eating seasonal vegetables

While implementing organic practices in the field, local plants appeared as the most sustainable choice we could make in all our farms. Native crops consume less water, and can even survived for a week without a single drop. The resistance of the plant is increased by the seasonal cultivation. By...

We craft organic vegetables from, farm to plate only for you……

How to make farming profitable for farming communities? As we previously told SAAL successfully converted and trained farmers to organic practices with the help of agripreneurs. The question that remained was to sell this organic production to the local people, how to remove the idea from their mind...

Educating and transforming farmers- Milestone achievement

In First Organics, we strongly believe that organic agriculture is a foolproof process. But, we also know that farmers on the field cannot spend a minimum of three month training in our office at Madurai. This is how 70 young men and women mostly from underprivileged farming communities joined the...

How traditional bio input reduces farming overheads?

Bio-inputs used in all organic vegetables at Firstorganics In agriculture like in any other business a smart investment is better than a huge one. Hence, for Mr Veluchammy, a farmer from Karadikal, organic farming was certainly the smartest investment he made in his farm as its yield doubled: "To...

When organic farming inspired science

Organic farming may sometimes be seen as an exact science for SAAL's agripreneurs. Depending on many factors like the soil and seeds quality, pest control, water management, our food system will be insure. The complementarity of both disciplines was clear enough to experiment a new kind of model...