Aware farmers are being encouraged by the district administration.
Farmers in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh are moving away from chemical farming towards organic farming. Aware farmers are cultivating using natural methods by making compost from waste items used in daily life. The agricultural officials of the district are making farmers aware about organic farming. Farmers are being taught chemical free farming using Brahmastra and Nimastra method. Farmers are also saving lakhs of rupees spent on chemical fertilizers.
Nandkishore, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Hardoi, said that many organic methods like Nimastra Brahmastra method are considered best for farming in modern era. Complete information about this is being given to the farmers by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra. Many farmers are adopting it and practicing improved cultivation and also earning income by saving expenditure on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Government is encouraging farmers
Mangala Prasad Singh, District Officer, Hardoi, said that the government periodically promotes the Nimastra Brahmastra method for chemical-free farming, in which neem, cow urine, etc. are used naturally and by making manure from cow dung, we can avoid the chemicals produced by organic farming. We can avoid poison.
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Nandkishore said that since time immemorial farmers have been making farming methods simple and cost-effective by using the natural things available around them. But due to the use of chemicals in the rush of modernity, the quality of the crops grown in the fields has reduced the nutrients for the human body. Seeing this, some farmers of Hardoi turned to old and profitable farming. Due to which the burden on farmers’ pockets has also reduced. Brahmastra and Nimastra methods are used in such cultivation methods.
For its production, cow dung, cow urine, flour of mung bean, arhar, chickpea etc., sugarcane juice, jaggery etc. are used. It is completely based on organic farming. No chemical elements are used in it. He said farmers are using Nimastra to protect themselves from insects and plant pests. Neem leaves and other things are used in making it. Making its solution and spraying it on crops gets rid of insects.
