One Day Workshop on
“Sustainable Farming Awareness”
This workshop is conducted to provide the awareness on Sustainable Farming methods for the farmers and farming passionate urban residents. The workshop was conducted for one day.
The Workshop was conducted by Agriculture Department – Gauribidanur and MHR Foundation of India.
Topics covered were:
Necessity of Farming in the current period, Problems faced by Farmers, Difference between Chemical, Organic and Natural Farming, Benefits of Natural Farming to Nature, Farmer and Consumer, Role of Microbes in Farming, List of false practices followed by Farmers in Farming, Science behind Plants and its Development, Green Revolution and its Impacts, What is Zero Budget Natural Farming and its advantages, Methods of Vegetable Model, Fruit Model, Cereal Crop Model in ZBNF, Details on Multi-cropping farming methods in ZBNF, Pest Management and Water Management in ZBNF, Marketing Insights for the Agriculture Produce, Questions and Answer Session related to agriculture.
Speaker and Trainer: Natural Farmer Sri Avinash
Date: 05th August, 2018 – Sunday
Workshop Location: Village Panchayat Ground, Vidhurashwattha, Gouribidanur
Training Language: Kannada
Workshop Time: Morning 8 AM to Evening 7 PM (Inclusive of Tea, Breakfast & Lunch)
Number of Participants: 2000
Places of Participants: Bangalore, Tumkur, Gouribidanur, Chikkaballapura, Doddaballapura, Madhugiri.
Impact:
Farmers understood the Procedure of following Sustainable Farming, chemical free farming, Steps to increase soil fertility and harvest without the inputs, making agri inputs zero in Natural Farming, Advantages of Multi-cropping model in pest management and Water management.