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 team to spread their organic advices in remote villages. Principal link between SAAL and farmers, Agripreneurs have to document every steps of the organic transformation.

                                  (Easy to test soil health by carbon kit for #organicfarming)

After many years of intensive chemical usage, the land is not directly ready to grow any plant. Most of the lands remain dry even after removing all chemicals, and need to be replenished. In order to know, how much sick the soil is, Agripreneurs must start to control the carbon level of the land.

A low carbon level indicates that no living organism or humus is in your soil. In Tamil Nadu, most of the land needs water; hence it is increase by perishing of the soil. Worms are, then, not playing their ploughing roles anymore. In order to create humus, farmers scatter cow dung and biodegradable waste.

After harvesting, the plant is normally removed and turned in order to ventilate the land. Thus new plantation should be in other part of the land. Agripreneurs used to control if the soil is rich enough, and if local seeds are planted. For example: native vegetables consume less water for the lands, while non-native plants consume more water. Native or local vegetables are more adaptable and profitable.

By

Audrey Durgairajan

First Organic Pvt Ltd