https://www.livemint.com/Money/YfToF624eHmRfj5Xcu3naM/Organic-paddy-cultivation-improves-yield-wages.html Kochi: Paddy farmers in Kerala’s rice granary Palakkad district have been successful in experimenting with organic paddy cultivation—their maiden crop has a buyer who has offered them a premium. Around 20 farmers have come together under the banner of the Vadakkencherry Padasekhara Samiti for cultivating paddy on a 50-acre plot in Vadakkencherry panchayat in the district. They have been in paddy cultivation for the last few decades but this season they decided to switch over to organic cultivation, bidding goodbye to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Harvesting has just begun and the reaping process is fully manual, involving around 25 workers daily. The process is expected to get over next week. The farmers are happy because the yield from an acre is more than four tonnes when the average yield under conventional paddy cultivation has been roughly 3.5 tonnes, says R.N. Ram...
Can someone tell me about the history and origin of Padasekhara samithis, is it a state body, government body or a society?
ReplyDeleteHi Vineetji,
DeleteIt is a private society of farmers. We can share as to how we have come to this stage over the course of last 6-7 years.
Let me have your contact details.
Regards
Ram Rishi