By The Earth Trust Team | The Earth Trust Team
The Nilgiris district in South India is an agriculture hub producing and supplying vegetables and spices to the rest of the country. However, it is also becoming the land of degraded soil quality, because of the decades long chemical-based cultivation and the indiscriminate and mindless application of chemical fertilizers.
The Earth Trust is trying to beat all hardships to help revitalize the soil quality and to produce safe food by training farmers on organic farming practices. The Kollimalai resource farm stands testimony to that. It is a 1.75 acre biodynamic farm, the one of its kind in the Nilgiris and one of the very few in the entire South India.
The Kollimalai farm is a center for biodynamic preparations (BD 500 – 507), vegetable and herbs cultivation. The farm follows the biodynamic concepts and calendar in its sowing and harvesting operations. This farm has been carefully nurtured over the years, which has a highly capable workforce, and is well versed in biodynamic preparation techniques and biodynamic farming.
The farm, due to its uniqueness, attracts learners and volunteers from different walks of life.
It is indeed a fact that the Kollimalai farm is far from being a model biodynamic farm; paucity of funds being one of the major reasons for its under utilization. Plans are underway to develop it into a model farm and to make it as a center for biodynamic training for the farming community.
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