JALANDHAR: Launching Agriculture and Environment Centre (AEC), several Sikh activists have taken the initiative to execute’jal chetna yatra’ (water consciousness march) beneath’jhona ghatao Punjab bachao’ (reduce paddy, rescue Punjab) from June 7 to inspire people not just to decrease area under paddy and diversify, but also to reverse into agro-forestry and planting little forests of standard trees in areas of the lands to improve the forest cover in the country.
They’re meeting agriculture specialists, environmentalists and farmers that are into varied or natural farming, requesting them to discuss their own experiments and experiences on social networking.
As stated by the group they’re reaching out to non-resident Punjabis to place the case in their own lands.
“Our goal is to produce at least 500 acre totally free of paddy this season.
It might be a rather compact place, but we need this could place examples .
Although our notion is that cultivation of paddy ought to be decreased but for immediate decrease in over manipulation of water we’re also amplifying the alternative techniques of paddy cultivation,” explained Mandhir Singh and also Parmjeet Singh, who began using the jal chetna yatra about June 7.
The activists have met environmentalist Padma Sri awardee Baba Sewa Singh of Khadoor Sahib, also Padma Bhusan awardee Dr Inderjeet Kaur Pingalwara in Amritsar, that has been promoting organic farming in the plantation of Pingalwara close Amritsar and also have shared their own experiences.
The activists, who’ve fulfilled some farmers into organic farming or have diversified into other plants, have amplified their experiences and techniques through social networking.
For example, farmer Raja Singh of all Dosanjh village near Moga, that couldn’t visit Canada despite obtaining visa because of sickness of his dad and began putting farming his family property, advised in between every row of sugarcane he had been having distinct crop including veggies and in 1 acre he had been having 15 distinct produces annually.
He along with his spouse Jasleen procedure all of their generates and market.
“We’re especially urging non-resident Punjabis, for example a number gurdwara committees overseas, to come ahead and put examples in their lands straight home.
Quite a number of these have taken up the telephone to diversify and to have woods on chunks of the lands,” they stated.
“Punjab needs detailed strategy and alternative.
Only decrease in paddy cultivation isn’t sufficient and we will need to raise the green cover at the nation, which is only at 6 percent today.
On July 28, we’re likely to have a convention where we mean to own agriculture specialists, environmentalists and farmers that are successful to ensure comprehensive answers could be brought before the public,” they stated.
‘Reduce paddy, Rescue Punjab’ campaign propagates permaculture to Conserve groundwater
