Powerful HARIT PRAYAS to generate awareness on organic cultivation!

On March 14, 2013  we have organised a  programme on organic farming and has been withnessed by more than 2000+ community members. In the beginning of this month our team planned to step forward on “Organic Farming”. We thought why not to utilize the “Rahas Mela” A festival where farmers from all around the district get together and sell their livestock. This is a 15 days festival which was organized by MP givt the and special invite was  MLA of  Sagar district Shri Gopal Bhragav jee who is also the Panchayati Rajya Minister of MP.  In all these 15 days there are different critical issues directly or indirectly related to Farmers. On 14^th March, 2013 there was a “Krisak Samelan” and we HARIT PRAYAS team at MVSS-Sagar realized that it will be the best day for our event to take shape. We talked to the government officials and were able to get the schedule and time fixed. We scripted our dialogues on some of the important point on the organic farming like “Use of locally available Seed, Use of Bio fertilizers, Use of Amrit Pani, Use of Ancient Technique for weeding, Making of Vermi Compost and Impact of chemical fertilizer on soil and nature”. Team had also planned to sing a folk song on organic farming with same relevant issues. We have involved local community artist  for doing the puppet show. The event started and to our shock the crowd reported  was more than 2000 from different villages. We started our event with a brief description of Harit Prays & the role of  Manav Vikas Seva Sangh and then we presented about organic farming techniques.

During the puppet show we depicted a husband and wife who because of chemical farming in their land got fewer crops. And then the way Harit Prayas Team helps them to overcome the problem of scarcity.  After the puppet show we started the famous folk song on organic farming sung by the team themselves, with the lyrics as “Jaiwk khad apnaiyo; Kisan bhaiya upaj badhiyo” (adopt organic farming and increase cultivation). We got an opportunity to share with farmers’ the importance of organic farming by entertaining them and making them sing along with us. The Minister has acknowledged our effort and gave Momentous and certificates to our Team member and acknowledging the effort of MVSS-Sagar through movement like HARIT PRAYAS. He also requested us to continue our effort and to aware people on various others issues also. The entire programme of HARIT PRAYAS was live telecast on the City News Channel .

We are planning to continue this at village level also. Please listen the audio song that our team has made in bundelkhandi on organic farming.

Alok Tripathy

Project Coordinator

Harit Prayas(MVSS- Sagar)