Farmer Producer Company sets out to revive fallow lands in Kerala

As Kerala stands astatine the crossroads of a deepening cultivation situation with immense stretches of once-fertile onshore lying fallow, the stirrings of a quiescent revival are taking basal successful cardinal Travancore.

The TIES Farmer Producer Company (TIES FPC), promoted by the Pampady-based Tropical Institute of Ecological Sciences (TIES) with enactment from NABARD, has travel up with a program to reclaim idle lands and reconstruct Kerala’s farming legacy. As portion of it, the institution plans to lease farmland from consenting owners and cultivate crops ideally suited to each region’s ungraded and climate.

The task focuses connected producing toxin-free food, made disposable some successful its earthy signifier and arsenic value-added products. These wholesome goods volition find their mode to the unfastened marketplace done online platforms and proviso stores etc.

Landowners arsenic shareholders

“Under the project, landowners volition go our shareholders. TIES FPC volition lease the onshore done a multi-year ineligible agreement. An adept squad volition negociate everything from effect to sale, with certified integrated methods to guarantee maximum productivity. The onshore owners tin bask the rewards without the responsibilities,” explained Punnen Kurian Vengadath, secretary, TIES.

To harvester modern technology

The farming operations volition beryllium driven by state-of-the-art automation, with up to 99% mechanisation and an AI-powered bundle strategy that volition harvester technological farming information with real-time upwind intelligence. To guarantee implicit transparency, tract cameras volition beryllium installed astatine each cultivation site, allowing the absentee landowners to show their farms live.

Agri-tourism

The institution besides plans to present agri-tourism experiences, including an innovative `farm gymnasium’ that allows visitors to blend fittingness with the rhythms of workplace life.In its archetypal phase, TIES FPC volition statesman operations successful the Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts, portion plans are besides afoot to widen its footprint to each districts of Kerala wrong 5 years.

Agriculture Minister P. Prasad volition inaugurate the institution astatine 3 p.m. connected Sunday astatine Nalumanikkattu, Manarcad. Company Chairman Roy Paul volition preside over. Cooperation Minister V.N. Vasavan and others volition beryllium present.