Organic Farming for the Villages in India – Popularizing Organic Farming in the Villages

At Makino School of Continuing and Non-Formal Education, Sam Higgingbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, ASHA= Asian Sustainable Holistic Approach, supports projects that popularizes organic farming in the villages within India, and in the countries around.

【Main Project Contents】 Educating the students of MSCNFERecruiting specialists Managing the society of agricultural villages Practicing and managing organic farming for balanced life and income Organizing seminars for organic farm workers Support collaborative projects with NGO from other areas Provide advice for organic farming projects organized by government of India and abroad

※The union business is now run by collaboration between the producers themselves and the NGO. We put primary focus on the vegetables and other agricultural products produced by the union members and how they sell them. In Japan, we also sell Indian herbal bathwater additives made with the organic products harvested in the villages as fair trade products.

【Reality of Farms in India】

The farmers in the villages of developing countries all over the world have been abusing chemical fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals in order to increase their agricultural productivities. India is one of such countries. The soil impoverishes as a result of chemical abuse, and in some areas, it reduces the productivities rather than increasing it. Parasites gather around these feeble crops due to the tainted soil, and in order to get rid of them, the farmers must increase the use of chemicals: it is a bad cycle. Agricultural chemicals are extremely costly for the village farmers with low incomes, so they may lose the farm land due to debts, thus loosing food to eat every day.           

The activities of MSCNFE enforce sustainable and safe organic farming in the village areas, encouraging and training the village farmers of today and future.。