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Organic Farming Becoming Popular in Punjab
December 10, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Environmental Health
The Punjab government is encouraging farmers to take up organic farming and give up the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Motivated by the Organic Farming Council of Punjab, a government initiative to encourage diversification in agriculture through macrobiotic farming, many farmers have now taken to natural ways of farming.
About 1,200 farmers have registered themselves with the Organic Farming Council for the free of cost training in organic farming.
The registration enables them to enjoy the councils grant of rupees 1.2 lakh, a sum required to be paid to the government in lieu of a certificate which is a must to sell organic farm trademark product in the market.
Jasbir Singh of Punjabs Fatehgarh District has taken to organic farming and stresses on the urgent need for the discontinuation of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He believes in bring transformation with the help of farmers of about a dozen nearby village.
He says: It will take some time to farmers to fully adopt it. The farmers are facing uncertainty and caught in the loans vicious circle. The trend is such that without a loan, farmers cannot survive. But slowly and steadily, they will be free by pursuing others as we form a chain.
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