Cultivating Affordable Agriculture
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Respecting laws of nature in farming is very important. Every season and seasonal vegetation has their importance. To go with nature is being healthy, hence rural india must continue its traditional farm practices.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Laxman
Last Name
Singh
Website
Organization
Gramin Vikas Navyuvak Mandal Lapodia (GVNML)
Country
India
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Gramin Vikas Navyuvak Mandal Lapodia (GVNML)
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+91 9414071843
Organization Address
Courier address: Laxman Singh, 21, Arjun Nagar, Durgapura, JAIPUR (For field addresses, refer to the website)
Organization Country
India
Your idea
Name Your Project
Cultivating Affordable Agriculture
Country your work focuses on
India
What makes your approach innovative?
GVNML is implementing integrated agriculture development program through strategy of prewatershed and watershed intervention in GVNML functioning area. This program involves all conservation practices regarding soil & water as well as better productivity from agriculture and livestock. The program participating community get food support (buglar and oil) during completion of a particulars sites. In brief the program has following objectives: To increase fertility of land and availability of water to ensure sustain food security in a sustain way, To strengthen existing common natural resources and manage for sustain use, To develop skill and capacities o CBOs like VDC, SHG and participate them actively in village development of planning and implementation level.
Also GVNML promotes traditional farming practices against hybridization. It believes that vegetation depends on climate and that is the best way nature supports man. Using hybrid variety is both costly and against nature. We may suffer biological consequences as long term result of genetically altered seeds. Farmers are less informed about proper benefits of such seeds. In brief, it is not best suited for farmers who
Describe Your Idea
Respecting laws of nature in farming is very important. Every season and seasonal vegetation has their importance. To go with nature is being healthy, hence rural india must continue its traditional farm practices.
How will you sustain your solution?
Since our program involves community participation where the communities are responsible for managing GVNML programmes, it is the most effective mechanism for us to sustain our efforts. We work with the community, government and other funding partners in making our efforts converged and successful.
What will be the impact of your solution?
Some of our main impacts are: 1. Pasture land development activity increased the productivity of pasture and upto 5-6 ft. long grass noticed and this provided green grass upto 3 month in drought situation. 2. Form bunding is directly benefited the alkanity and salinity affected agriculture fields.
3. Watershed interventions helped in increase of water table and total irrigated area. 4. The watershed village reduced the migration level of human and animal. 5. Community have witnnesed the benefits of super-vermi compost and horticulture plantation and are now getting more interested. None of our interventions support usage of fertilizers or biologically modified seeds.
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