Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: A farmer from Nanj village in Karsog valley in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, Nekram Sharma, has been conferred with the celebrated Padma Shri award for his contribution in agriculture, particularly natural farming. Over three many years in the past, Nekram tried for a authorities job however was unsuccessful. He turned to the 22 bighas of his household land mendacity unused and began rising vegatables and fruits. He additionally experimented with natural farming and adopted outdated farming methods.
Sharma has been rising 9 kinds of grains via natural farming. However, his duty has now elevated manifold as he must work at the least 18 hours a day as in opposition to 14 hours earlier. “It is the International Year of Millets. In the approaching competition in Mandi, In the upcoming agri fest in Mandi, I’ve requested district administration that I must be allowed to place up two stalls – one by which I may show millets and the opposite to cook dinner and serve to the general public in order that folks know the advantages of millets,’’ he stated.
People name him a ‘saviour’ of indigenous seeds as Nekram has adopted nau-anaj (nine-crop sample) observe, an intercropping methodology by which 9 meals grains are grown on the identical piece of land. In 2010, when he carried out Nau-Anaj, it impressed different farmers within the area as properly, prompting them to type Parvatiye Tikau Kheti Abhiyan (PTKA), a cooperative of farmers.
Since then, 1000’s of farmers have linked with him with calls for coming from Punjab, Haryana, UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Telangana. The farmers go to him to purchase the seeds, however those that can’t, request their provides by courier, which he does. He cultivates foxtail millet, maize, finger millet, buckwheat, Amaranthus rajma, urad dal, moong and beans.
“In a yr, one can develop 18 crops (9 every for kharif and rabi). This cropping sample has a number of advantages because it not solely raises soil fertility but in addition causes much less water consumption with nearly zero enter prices. There are round 20 indigenous seeds, together with eight kinds of millets, three sorts of wheat, via intercropping system,’’ he stated.
CHANDIGARH: A farmer from Nanj village in Karsog valley in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, Nekram Sharma, has been conferred with the celebrated Padma Shri award for his contribution in agriculture, particularly natural farming. Over three many years in the past, Nekram tried for a authorities job however was unsuccessful. He turned to the 22 bighas of his household land mendacity unused and began rising vegatables and fruits. He additionally experimented with natural farming and adopted outdated farming methods.
Sharma has been rising 9 kinds of grains via natural farming. However, his duty has now elevated manifold as he must work at the least 18 hours a day as in opposition to 14 hours earlier. “It is the International Year of Millets. In the approaching competition in Mandi, In the upcoming agri fest in Mandi, I’ve requested district administration that I must be allowed to place up two stalls – one by which I may show millets and the opposite to cook dinner and serve to the general public in order that folks know the advantages of millets,’’ he stated.
People name him a ‘saviour’ of indigenous seeds as Nekram has adopted nau-anaj (nine-crop sample) observe, an intercropping methodology by which 9 meals grains are grown on the identical piece of land. In 2010, when he carried out Nau-Anaj, it impressed different farmers within the area as properly, prompting them to type Parvatiye Tikau Kheti Abhiyan (PTKA), a cooperative of farmers.
Since then, 1000’s of farmers have linked with him with calls for coming from Punjab, Haryana, UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Telangana. The farmers go to him to purchase the seeds, however those that can’t, request their provides by courier, which he does. He cultivates foxtail millet, maize, finger millet, buckwheat, Amaranthus rajma, urad dal, moong and beans.
“In a yr, one can develop 18 crops (9 every for kharif and rabi). This cropping sample has a number of advantages because it not solely raises soil fertility but in addition causes much less water consumption with nearly zero enter prices. There are round 20 indigenous seeds, together with eight kinds of millets, three sorts of wheat, via intercropping system,’’ he stated.