Welcome to a type of farming that uses no chemical fertilizer or pesticides and herbicides, very little water, raised beds, companion planting, nitrogen fixing crops, and high yields all year round of multiple crops - on a small (6 kanal) area of land - ideal for small farmers. This diverse organic farming method needs to fully displace the "green revolution" chemical agriculture along with the wheat-rice monoculture trap that has devastated Punjab and many areas of India. The nonprofit US based organization PAGRI (Punjab Agricultural Rejuvenation Initiative) asked its project leader from Faridkot district, Balwinder Singh, to travel to the Goraya Farm along with farmer Gurlal Singh to learn about this - Pagri's project leader from Gurdaspur district, Gurbinder Bajwa, also facilitated the trip. In this video, in a conversation with Balwinder, the farmer Kabal Singh Goraya (gurdaspur district) explains how this simple approach works so well. With raised beds 4 feet wide, and sugarcane rows 8 feet apart, a variety of vegetable and pulse (daal) crops are being grown. Water is saved big time as only an alternate channel of two 4 foot raised beds gets water. Nitrogen fixing plants like mooing and maah daals (pulses) help eliminate the need for chemical fertilizer. The techniques benefits from a unique technique of Organic Farming called Companion Planting - that is the growing of crops together that like each other and help each other!! With this method, the farmer can have multiple crops, each sown and harvested at different times. Before one crop is harvested the other has been sown and gets time to be established. This technique needs to taught to all the farmers and Balwinder Singh will take back this technique to Faridkot district and will be teaching the farmers this.
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Model Organic Multi-Cropping Farming in Punjab on Goraya Farm
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