Month: May 2017

We are hosting a 45 day training workshop on Agriculture for our #Kushalkisan at Angara Mass, #Ranchi. Scientist from Birsa Agricultural University and resource persons from #SyngentaFoundationIndia are taking training sessions for our AEs of #Gola, #Torpa and #Raidih district, Jharkhand. This unique training is targeted at educating and helping our AEs so that they…

After its successful rollout in Torpa block and #Raidih block, we are happy to announce the launch of #KushalKisan - a social program that seeks to make farming fascinating and productive for farmers - at Bhubhui village, #Gola block of Ramgarh district in #Jharkhand. MLA Shri Chandra Prakash Choudhary was present on the occasion and…

We are grateful to Horticulture Department of Jharkhand Government for sanctioning Green House facility to 16 of our farmers of Raidih & Torpa blocks with a subsidy of Re 2.65 Lakh each for FY 2016-17 We sincerely thank Shri Nitin Madan Kulkarni, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Shri Rajeev Kumar, Director, National Horticulture Mission for…

People living in villages, who are migrating in large numbers to urban spaces in search of livelihoods, could be victims of our economic development or perhaps the dismal income growth of farm households is semi-deliberate to keep labor costs low Till about 1990 since Independence, our country followed what may be broadly termed an import-substitution…

A survey conducted in South Kamrup in Assam shows that use of small water pumps for irrigation in an area where groundwater is abundant has resulted in significant increases in earnings for smallholder and marginal farmers A few years ago, Umes Deka of Urangapara village in South Kamrup district of Assam was like any other…