Welcome to Organic Farming.

” Making Your Organic Farm Dream Come True “

Sustainable, integrated and natural agriculture is the future of agriculture. Community Supported agriculture (CSA) combines the best of both community-living and natural farming to create wealth and well-being for the society and environment. We are a team of passionate

professionals with world-class education, rich experience and vast expertise in the sustainable integrated agriculture arena.  We are proud of being a social enterprise that aims to bring a positive social change in the field of agriculture and food.

Community Based Organic Farming (CSA)

“Community supported organic agriculture creates wealth and well-being for all”

The core idea of CSA is to promote eco-friendly, sustainable and prosperous agricultural practices. CSA facilitates a mutually beneficial association of farmers and non-farmers wherein non-farmers support in the agricultural activity of farmers. CSA model includes production, value addition and marketing thereby creating prosperity and well-being for the farmer and the CSA Member.

Farm to Consumer

“ Agriculture produce with value addition creates prosperity for farmers“

To be sustainable and prosperous, farming should be integrative and based on natural ecosystem principles. By combining farming with farm produce value addition, the agriculture will be made prosperous. Our natural products are value additions to the raw yield. Our products include food items, herbal health products, aroma oils and pickles. This will ensure high quality, healthy and eco-friendly agricultural products for the consumers.

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Community-supported agriculture

Community-supported agriculture (CSA; sometimes known as community-shared agriculture) is an alternative, locally basedeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA also refers to a particular network, or association of individuals, who have pledged to support one or more local farms, with growers and consumers sharing the risks and benefits of food production.

The CSA system

CSAs generally focus on the production of high quality foods for a local community, often using organic or biodynamic farming methods, and a shared risk membership–marketing structure. This kind of farming operates with a much greater degree of involvement of consumers and other stakeholders than usual — resulting in a stronger consumer-producer relationship. The core design includes developing a cohesive consumer group that is willing to fund a whole season’s budget in order to get quality foods. The system has many variations on how the farm budget is supported by the consumers and how the producers then deliver the foods. CSA theory purports that the more a farm embraces whole-farm, whole-budget support, the more it can focus on quality and reduces the risk of food waste.

What is organic farming?

Organic farming system in India is not new and is being followed from ancient time. It is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along with beneficial microbes (biofertilizers) to release nutrients to crops for increased sustainable production in an eco friendly pollution free environment.

As per the definition of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) study team on organic farming “organic farming is a system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic inputs (such as fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, feed additives etc) and to the maximum extent feasible rely upon crop rotations, crop residues, animal manures, off-farm organic waste, mineral grade rock additives and biological system of nutrient mobilization and plant protection”.

FAO suggested that “Organic agriculture is a unique production management system which promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity, and this is accomplished by using on-farm agronomic, biological and mechanical methods in exclusion of all synthetic off-farm inputs”.

Need of organic farming

With the increase in population our compulsion would be not only to stabilize agricultural production but to increase it further in sustainable manner. The scientists have realized that the ‘Green Revolution’ with high input use has reached a plateau and is now sustained with diminishing return of falling dividends. Thus, a natural balance needs to be maintained at all cost for existence of life and property. The obvious choice for that would be more relevant in the present era, when these agrochemicals which are produced from fossil fuel and are not renewable and are diminishing in availability. It may also cost heavily on our foreign exchange in future.

The key characteristics of organic farming include

• Protecting the long term fertility of soils by maintaining organic matter levels, encouraging soil biological activity, and careful mechanical intervention
• Providing crop nutrients indirectly using relatively insoluble nutrient sources which are made available to the plant by the action of soil micro-organisms
• Nitrogen self-sufficiency through the use of legumes and biological nitrogen fixation, as well as effective recycling of organic materials including crop residues and livestock manures
• Weed, disease and pest control relying primarily on crop rotations, natural predators, diversity, organic manuring, resistant varieties and limited (preferably minimal) thermal, biological and chemical intervention
• The extensive management of livestock, paying full regard to their evolutionary adaptations, behavioural needs and animal welfare issues with respect to nutrition, housing, health, breeding and rearing
• Careful attention to the impact of the farming system on the wider environment and the conservation of wildlife and natural habitats.

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