JUL 2, 2024
Our respected supporters, our President Lal Singh visited our Faridkot location and held a meeting in which he honored farmers that had done well in their adoption of Desi chickens for eggs. Also honored were farmers who had done well in developing organic kitchen gardens from seed kits and training we gave them. This happened in January 2024.
Then on April 6, 2024, our secretary Harinder Lamba visited Kotkapura area near Faridkot and held severla meetings with farmers and tried to chart a course as to what the future activities should be so as to continue to benefit the farmers directly by increasing their incomes.
Two other activities being considered are teaching farmers the Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) technique so that farmers do not use the water intensive water puddling technique of planting rice that also makes the rice plants more susceptible to fungi.
Another activity is to engage a Punjab based organization called Roundglass Foundation to help villages with solid waste management by building a shed and brick lined pits for trash and compostable green waste separately - making the villages cleaner and enabling them to use kitchen and other green wastes from the village as compost for farming. There will also be a parallel activity for the planting of indigenous varieties of trees for greenery, local biodiversity and possibly some economic activity.
Updates from PAGRI’s efforts, posted on a regular basis.
