Farmers trained on natural farming

By Our Correspondent,Humla, May 3: Training has been provided to locals on natural farming systems. The training has been provided for cultivating new techniques by treating the soil using local resources. 

Guhela Rawat, a resident of Simkot Rural Municipality-6, said that this was an opportunity to learn natural farming techniques using new technologies. 

He said that during the training he learned that waste could be used to treat the soil for farming. Twelve other locals like Rawat were given the training.  

The training was conducted by Jung Bahadur Shahi, an agriculture technician at Snowland Integrated Development Centre, a local support organization. 

He said the training was conducted so the locals could be free from using pesticides. The first lesson in the training was vegetable farming.  In the training, the treatment of disease-causing worms using garlic, the production of calcium from bones, the production of phosphorus from egg shells, and nitrogen from fish sugar were practiced and used in vegetable farming. 

Shahi said that with limited resources, new technology could produce more with less investment. Building and using it is the main goal of the training. 

This natural farming was started in seven settlements Simkot, Burause, Hildum Thehe of Simkot Rural Municipality, and Nalan, Chipra, and Majha of Kharpunath Rural Municipality.

The trainees are also given agricultural equipment. The training will now be progressing to step two and will be provided to 250 farmers.  This year, the farmers will start cultivation on 101 acres of land.