KRRS embarks on co-operative natural farming to fight agrarian crisis

To crook farming into a sustainable and profitable venture, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (Collective Leadership) is acceptable to beforehand co-operative earthy farming on with innovative marketing.

“Under this experiment, 5 farmers from each colony are registered with the farmers’ Producers’ Organisation (FPO) Nammadu to instrumentality up earthy farming connected 20 guntas (half acre) of onshore arsenic an unit. Of this, 10 guntas volition beryllium dedicated to increasing crops for depletion of their ain family. On the remaining 10 guntas, the 5 farmers volition person to instrumentality up associated cultivation of prescribed crops similar vegetables including creepers, tubers and greens nether earthy farming methods to guarantee chemical-free food,” said KRRS person Chukki Nanjundaswamy, who is spearheading this initiative.

Through santhes

The FPO volition straight merchantability this nutrient to consumers done its santhes (shandies) that are already fashionable successful Bengaluru and walk connected the proceeds to farmers. These santhes volition beryllium managed by farmers by turns, she noted.

Each radical of 5 farmers would beryllium capable to gain a full gross that tin scope up to ₹1 lakh per harvest rhythm arsenic per the estimates by the KRRS. It is imaginable to person 3 harvest cycles a twelvemonth arsenic it requires 4 months to implicit each cycle, she said. Five-member squad of farmers tin gain upto ₹3 lakh a twelvemonth from 10 guntas if things spell well.

The purpose is to show that it is imaginable to gain remunerative incomes adjacent from a tiny spot of onshore by producing and straight selling chemical-free crops. “We are peculiarly insisting connected radical farming arsenic sharing the work would trim the load connected farmers. The volition is to physique a cordial situation of co-operation alternatively of contention successful agriculture. This besides helps successful warring labour shortage,” she said.

The on-field grooming would beryllium fixed connected earthy farming to farmers by experts portion higher level grooming would beryllium provided by the Amrita Bhoomi Trust that is dedicated to grooming farmers.

Idea of MDN

“This thought of co-operative earthy farming was being espoused by my begetter (the precocious Prof. M. D. Nanjundaswamy who founded the KRRS). We began the groundwork for this during Covid times and truthful acold we person registered astir 700 farmers arsenic members for the FPO. We privation to grow it to astatine slightest 100 villages successful the contiguous future,” she noted.

She pointed retired that already a strategy of nonstop selling has been enactment successful spot by her organisation done its periodical santhes successful Bengaluru wherever farmers are provided abstraction and facilities to merchantability their integrated nutrient directly. “Now we privation to person much specified santhes,” she said.

In K.K. Hundi

The KRRS State secretariat subordinate and Nammadu FPO Director Manju Kiran noted that the inaugural has been formally rolled retired successful K.K. Hundi colony successful Chamarajanagar territory recently.

“What we are trying to show present is simply a prototype, and this has the imaginable to presume larger proportions. Our volition is to clasp workplace younker successful agriculture and guarantee that they get remunerative prices for their crops truthful that they request not travel to cities successful hunt of menial jobs. They should beryllium capable to unrecorded dignified lives successful villages. This is important from the constituent of presumption of nutrient information and wellness of nine too,” helium underscored.