Chennai, January 10, 2023…Adani Foundation, Kattupalli has the mandate to promote Natural Farming across select Villages with a view to educate the Farmers on the ill-effects of indiscriminate application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. To overcome these problems the Farmers are facilitated to adopt cost-effective, eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable Organic Protocols. In line with the above objective, during the year 2021-22, 30 Model Farmers were facilitated to take up Natural Farming and based on the success of the programme for the current year 2022-23, the programme has been scaled up to 19 Farmers Groups consisting of 300 Farmers to take up Organic Protocols. Further, Adani Foundation has also formed 3 Women Farmers Groups having 126 Women Farmers as Members and affiliated to Minjur Women Farmers Producer Organization functioning under the control of Rural Development and Local Administration Department, Minjur.
For the current year, the Awareness Meeting has been conducted at Kattur Village on 9th January 23 inaugurated by Joint Director of Agriculture, Tiruvallur under the presidentship of Kattur Panchayat on 9th January 2023 where 175 farmers participated in the program. Besides Agriculture, other Sister Departments viz. Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering have participated and explained about the various Government Schemes to the Farmers and the doubts raised by the Farmers were cleared. On the occasion, an Exhibition was also conducted wherein the Seeds of High Yielding Varieties, Bio-fertilizers, Agri Implements and Machineries and Micro-irrigation Equipment were displayed for the benefit of the Farming Community. All the Farmers have thanked the Adani Foundation for arranging the useful program.
Besides promoting Organic Protocols and Farmers Groups, Adani Foundation is also facilitating a strong linkage between Farmers and Government Departments by way of conducting Awareness Meetings. In short, Adani Foundation makes the Farmers to know about Government Schemes and provide Government Assistance at their doorstep