On 2nd
July 2013 , an exposure programme was conducted in our project area by JEEVIKA
(A project of Caritas India in Gwalior for Organic Farming) at Harit Prayas
Majhotha & Karondia. Participants were 20 farmer’s groups. Team has
interacted with Mahila Mandal & Farmers’ Club of the village and after that
they all went to the field where organic farming is adopted.
First of all
visitors has been welcomed by HP Majhota's Farmers Group in their traditional
way. Then Kamlesh Patel and his group started the programme with the prayer and
also sang a song on Harit Prayas. Visitors enjoyed the songs vey much of HP
Majhota Sangeet Mandal. They also participated in the programme and sang a song
on Jeevika. After the welcome party, visitors talked to Haridin Patel and
cleared their queries regarding Organic Farming and pesticides.
(Member
of Farmer Group Singing a Song at HP Majhota)
Visitors group
also interacted with the Mahila Mandal Groups of HP Majhota. They learned the
preparation of agarbatti. At the end, president of the group Mrs. Parvati Verma
gave some packets of agarbatti to their Project Manager Mr. Chaturvedi. Jeevika
team cleared all their questions with the Mahila Mandal group from production
to sale of agarbatti.
(Jeevika
Coordinator Accepting the Agarbatti Sample from Mahila Mandal Presindent)
Now it was the
time to enjoy the lunch party of the host. Visitors enjoyed the lunch cooked in
the HP Majhota by the Mahila Mandal group and praised them from the bottom of
their heart for the food served. After the lunch party, visitors went to the
field of Haridin Patel, where the organic farming method is adopted.
(Jeevika
team at Harideen’s field, where organic farming is adopted)
After the
field visit at HP Majhota, visitors went to Karondia village and watched the
Nad-deep-pits and raised their queries to farmers’ group of Karondia. At the
end of this exposure visit, the team was directed to the zonal office at
Khajuraho, where the Project Manager Mr. Irshad Mansoori and Coordinator Mr.
Vinod Tripathi of Harit Prayas resolved the queries of farmers’ group &
Jeevika team.
By HARIT PRAYAS-SSSS-Satna team
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