Tamil Nadu farmers float club to produce organic vegetables


In a unique move, a group of farmers in Madurai district on Monday floated a 'club' to grow vegetables using only organic farming techniques.

These 20 farmers in Nariyampatti -- 30 km away from Madurai city -- who formed the club, named it Colonel Pennycuick Farmers' Club after the British engineer who constructed the Mullaperiyar dam, the lifeline of five southern districts of Tamil Nadu.

The village in Chellampatti block mostly produces vegetables such as brinjals, drumsticks, ladies finger, tomatoes, onions and greens. Flower crops like jasmine, tuberose and fodder crops for milch animals are also cultivated................Read more

 

Source: The Times of India


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