November 2022 

Dear Subscribers, 

Thank you for your continued support and generous donations that have enabled us to run various projects with the help of our on ground partners.

As SIF completes 10 years, please see below a snapshot of our journey over the years

Impact Stories

Community Kitchen Gardens in UP and MP

We expanded Community Kitchen Gardens (CKG) in Madhogarh and other villages in the vicinity of Hatta block Bundelkhand, Jhansi, as we rolled out Phase 4 in 2022 with our partner Parmarth. The project extended to start 20 new Kitchen Gardens and support maintenance of 25 existing Kitchen Gardens. As we progressed setting up new CKGs, heavy monsoon rain damaged crops and the land due to floods. SIF supported beneficiaries with packaged food, groceries and extended full help to address the issues at ground level.

SIF supported wire fencing and maintenance of existing CKGs, conducted 5 Shram daan shibirs and field visits. We also provided micronutrient support to 16 CKGs and conducted Self Help Group meetings, encouraged women farmers to join Poshan Shaheli group to get training on sustainable livelihood, farming techniques, organic pesticides preparations, micro irrigation etc. Horticulture experts’ visits were conducted in the area to address farming issues, plant health and treatment.

ArokyaMary, Irungalur Tamil Nadu

See this video to hear it from ArokyaMary, about the benefits of using PanchKavya. She suffers from asthma and Panchkavya helped her improve her health. She says she saw great benefits and feeds her own family with this organic produce.

Upcoming Events

On November 12, we bring you a joyful evening as a tribute to the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan. The event is organized by Hidden gems to support Save Indian Farmers.

Through this fundraiser we are looking to raise funds to scale our sustainable agriculture initiative, which focuses on leveraging organic eco-friendly tools and techniques to reduce capital costs, increase productivity and profits, and improve soil quality. 

The proceeds of this event will be utilized to support all the projects below, so we request you to generously support us in making the farmers’ lives sustainable. 

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Please continue reading to learn more on our project updates

Organic Horticulture, Tamil Nadu

Our partner PEAS trust helped us select a group of 30 farmers as beneficiaries who were trained on sustainable horticulture methods, practices and production of organic farm inputs, pesticides and crop tonics by Dr. Shanmugam and Dr. Parthiban of Government Agriculture College, Kumulur. 

Each farmer received 133 kilos of vermicompost and seeds of tomatoes, brinjal, lady’s finger and Chilies. All the 30 farmers were supported with Bio fertilizers kits containing Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirilium and Pseudomonas putida. Read more about this project here.

Farmer’s Producers’ Organization, Tumkur, Karnataka

Shri Rajeshekar, Rtd. Agriculture officer & Shri Ramesh, a Scientist conducted a training for 25 farmers on the objectives and importance of the organic farming, need of organic farmers producers organization and importance of collective efforts. Organic farmer’s meets were conducted in 23 villages in Tumkur Koratagere and Madhugiri talukas.

Business activities like procurement and marketing of organic vegetables, organic millets and horticulture produce from organic farmers were also initiated through the organic outlet in Tumkur city. Our partner for this project is Avishkar. Read more 

Agroforestry, Assam

In Jorhat Assam, we have identified regions of plantation where there are pressing agricultural and water issues. We have successfully implemented a project to plant fruit bearing or medicinal trees on a marginalized farmer’s field. 

A total of 3000 seedless lemon trees were planted on the lands of 15 farmers in Jorhat, Assam with the help from our on ground partner, SankalpTaru Foundation (STF) working very closely with the beneficiaries. Farmers were trained on horticultural and inter crop techniques which keeps them constantly motivated and incentivized. Read more

Kisaan Samridh, Chhattisgarh

Our partner, Shramjeevi Vikas Manch helped identify 25 farmers from 5 villages, who are a mix of poor, marginal and very poor families with a certain volume of land holding. All the farmers were oriented on the project objectives through individual counselling and interactions.

Orientation sessions were conducted focussed on the SRI methods, proper utilization of home gardens for vegetable cultivation, linkage of women members of the farmers to SHGs and promotion of vocational trades related to agriculture.Farmers were also educated about leveraging various government schemes that are aimed at improving the cultivation. Read more

Sustainable Development, Jharkhand

We started sustainable development efforts in Jharkhand with the help of Savera Foundation. 20 community meetings have been organized in which 240 male and 160 female farmers participated.  As part of kitchen garden efforts in this area, 101 farmers received the seeds of brinjal, lady’s finger, pumpkin, bitter gourd etc. to sow. 85 farmers have already made a fence in their kitchen garden to sow the seed. 

We also trained 50 farmers on alternative cropping patterns and are promoting homestead horticulture in this area. 100 Community People received mango, jackfruit, guava, jamun and lemon saplings, out of which 21 have made a fence to protect the saplings. Read more about this project here.

Sustainable Farming, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

RRDS Team Coordinator Mr. D. Subramanyam visited the 12 project villages. He organized meetings to educate the farmers about the importance of natural farming practices, water harvesting structures and community kitchen gardening.Total 160 members participated in the meetings.

The Thokalapudi Cheruvu and Kotharajupalem Tank bund was weakened. Both tanks were repaired to enable lemon and dryland crops cultivation for a total of 30 farmers (42.60 acres land) in Thokalapudi and 18 farmers (39.5 acres land) in Kotharajupalem. Read more.

Thank you for your continued support. We hope you all stay safe and healthy! 

Yours Sincerely,

Jitendra Karkera
President, Save Indian Farmers