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PREMCHAND SAINI

Farmer and
Organic Compost Producer Kabirpur Village, Saharanpur District
Uttar Pradesh

  
 
Like most other farmers, I depended on chemical fertilisers to boost productivity. I joined ITC’s training programme and went on exposure visits, attended training camps – I even did residential training at G.B. Pant University and field training in Himachal Pradesh. Now I produce organic compost – both vermi and NADEP – which I sell and also use in my fields. The sale of worms has given me a useful additional income. Today, apart from growing the major Rabi and Kharif crops, I also grow mushrooms and strawberries from which I make much higher products. My experience has changed my outlook and I am now trying to motivate other farmers in my village to adopt these practices that will enable them to earn more as well as keep our land fertile in the long term.


Agricultural Development Now Next 5 Years
Group irrigation wells 286 500
Sprinkler units 473 1,000
Demonstration plots 3,345 5,000
Vermicompost & NADEP units 12,837 25,000
ITC offers facilitation to farmers toform agri-business societies, pool knowledge and resources, improve productivity and quality, and reach out beyond local markets to sell at better margins.
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