Thiruvananthapuram: The Ministry of Agriculture has begun to reap the results of regenerative agriculture carried out in various demonstration plots in all states, including those in the district.
Implemented as a conservation and rehabilitation approach to the food and agricultural system and to increase the resistance to climate change, it focuses on topsoil regeneration, increases biodiversity and increasing the water cycle.
Officials said that the demonstration plot under the names of Agro Ecological Agriculture Systems (AEF) and Vriksha Ayurvedam gave promising results.
“The results are pretty good but the cost of input is lower than our documentation in the demo plot.
Above all the food is very good.
It is a scientific fact that when plants are high nutrition, the food becomes delicious.
Under the 100-day program, for the first time the department works on the target Ambitious start the conversion of 25,000 hectares into healthy healthy chemical agriculture.
The department plans to promote all the plots as a training plot, “said Department of Agriculture K Vasiukan.
The results selected from this type of farm are included for sale on the Onam market.
“Regenerative agriculture is not specific practice itself.
On the contrary, regenerative agricultural supporters utilize various other sustainable agriculture techniques.
Permaculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Ecology Restoration, Keyline Design and Holistic Management are some practices that are under this approach,” added Vasuki.
Expert team from Andhra Pradesh conducted training for this program.
The Ministry of Agriculture has begun many sustainable agricultural methods to promote free agricultural methods of chemical and environmentally friendly in all states under the Subhiksham Surakhitham – BPKP project (Bharatiya Prakartic Krishi Padhathi).
The basic concept of agriculture is that commercial agriculture can be done using available and agricultural-based resources without penalty results.
The ‘Subhiksham Surakhitham’ project proposes to apply planting fully environmentally friendly in 84,000 hectares in the state in the phase.
At the block level, this project is implemented through a total of 168 clusters.
The cluster will cover at least 500 hectares.
For this until RS 26.52 lakh is provided for a cluster.
This project aims to form organic villages and to promote environmentally friendly agriculture at low costs.
Regenerative agriculture produces positive results
