Team Goemkarponn
CANACONA: Stating being a small State, Regional Centre for Organic and Natural Farming (RCONF), Bangalore Regional Director V K Verma said Goa shall be considered as a model State in Organic and Natural Farming.
Speaking further at the One-Day Workshop for Organic and Natural Farming at Lata Mangueshkar Kalangan, if we do not turn to organic cultivations and continue with chemical fertilizers the earth (soil) will no more be in a position to produce our daily food, as the frequent use of fertilizers which heavily contains chemical will turn the Soil useless for cultivating any type of produce.
Stating Fields have become less . but more hospitals, Verma said, ‘What we sow we get, to increase and hasten productions we have heavily turned towards hybrids methods which are very harmful not only to our health, but the healthiness of Soil gets destroyed and our cultivating fields becomes fully dependent on chemicals to give yields’.
‘We don’t have quality food, though we have so much of food, no one is happy with the quality of the food. Soil which contains living organisms is our ventilator, we must keep it alive by practicing natural manuers as much as possible and completely ignore use of chemical fertilizers. This is also going to protect our environment’. Chemical usage is gone beyond reversible and very threatening and unhealthy, whereas our aim is to organize organic farming, which is healthy to the earth (Soil) and too healthy and nutritious to our health. People should and prefer Organic food for healthy lifestyle’.
The farmers of Sanguem, Quepem and Canacona attended the one-day workshop on Organic and Natural Farming with a theme Jaivik Kheti .
A resource person, with the help of projector showcase the harm w2e are doing by exploiting the hybrid culture and also the explained the rich benefits and method of organic and natural farming.
Earlier, the Workshop was inaugurated by lighting traditional lamp at the hands of chief guest CMC Chairperson Sara Shamba Naik Desai, in the presence of RCONF Regional Director V K Verma, Director of Agriculture Sandeep Phaldessai, Dy. Director Kikshore Bhavi, Asstt. Directors Nagesh Komarpant, and Sangeeta Velip.
Other speakers emphasized that organic food tastes better than artificially prepared food like
Fast-food, future generations will not get enough food if we continue to depend on artificial/chemical productions and not revert back to natural farming. Director Sandeep Phaldessai said, infact, Goan farmers are organic farmer by default, but many have given up the natural practices and are becoming too much dependent on usage of chemical manures.
Goa doesn’t have much of large farming and it will be very easy to fall back to natural farming, which is as good as organic farming’.
