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Raitha Sangha to organise natural farming seminars

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: Dakshina Kannada unit of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha will organise seminars on "Natural farming of Subhash Palekar'' in chosen places of the the district during the next two months, sangha president N. S. Varma has said.

He told presspersons here on Tuesday that the first seminar would be held at Edapadavu High School on August 6. The second one will be organised at Bahubali Sabha Bhawan at Venoor on August 7.

It will be held at Mastikatte Kalyana Mantapa, Moodbidri, on September 15, at Sharada hotel, Surathkal, on September 16 and at Kodamanithhaya daivasthana, Shibaroor, on September 17.

Resource persons

Kailashmurthy Kollegal, Krishnappa Bannur, Swami Anand Mysore and Dharmaraj Hiriyur will be the resource persons.

Mr. Varma said use of chemical fertilizers had led to loss of fertility in land. The natural farming practiced and propagated by Subhash Palekar of Maharashtra helped in enhancing soil fertility. All farmers could adopt natural farming with minimum investment. This method propagated proper use of agriculture waste in farming.

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