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Farming is their way of life
Farming community, the backbone of our country is never free from difficulties. For years, the food providers have been queuing up in front of the moneylender's house to fill their stomach! What else can be the greatest humiliation to the largest population in the country? While many have surrendered their life to hunger, very few have shaped their life amidst adversities. One among them is Mr. A.P. Anantharajaiah, a farmer in Holabgare of Belur Taluk near Hassan, Karnataka.
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Information on organic produces
In order to encourage organic farming CAAM has set up this section wherein organic farmers across India publish details about their farm produce available for sale. We wish that this arrangement would enable buyers to contact organic farmers directly. This is a free service from CAAM.
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Organic Couple
Organic farming is not just an alternate for chemical farming. The concept has been evolved with an aim to shift life - from concrete to the natural. Basic features are self-reliance, eco friendly and economical. Many are yet to understand this. The story documents the farm life of Kusuma - Dharmalingam couple who has realised the realities.
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A Fukuoka there and a Cherkady here
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Forty years ago, a Japanese young man noticed a few paddy ears sticking out
from the grass and weeds in an unploughed, neglected patch of land. That was
the origin of 'One-straw Revolution' of Masanobu Fukuoka, which has now become a historical landmark. Almost around the same time a young man from Udupi District in Karnataka State, India, Cherkady Ramachandra Rao started treading the Gandhian concept of self-reliance and has lead the Indian natural farming movement.
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Indraprastha: In harmony with nature
"Let us incorporate leaves in our diet. It will solve our food and health problems," Mr. A.P. Chandrashekhar, an organic farmer near Mysore gives a simple solution to the major problem, the country is facing! A zealous farmer, Mr. Chandrashekhar has turned his farm into a mini organic forest and his home an experimental lab.
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Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture
A group of small farmers, majority of them women, from two corners of the world, South Asia and Canada, met in Canada recently to dialogue what was billed as South Asia - Canada Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture. As a beginning, this was one of the most significant initiatives in recent times. The entire group was committed to organic agriculture, and through that committed to the Earth and her health. And thereby the health of our planet.
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