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9.3 Link organic municipal solid waste segregated at source—especially
from markets, hostels, densely populated areas, and other
institutions—including night soils to farms through such means as
simple and cost-efective decentralized composting, biogasification, and
vermicomposting, and thus ensure organic mater recycling. Organic
waste treatment plant should be made compulsory for the flats.
9.4 Conduct training programs for local resource persons for producing good
quality input, quality testing, and for such related aspects at the Local
Self Government Institution level.
9.5 Formulate legislative measures to empower the Local Self Government
Institutions [and] reputed NGOs for ensuring quality of inputs, including
necessary rules, guidelines, standards, monitoring, and testing
procedures and establishment of laboratories.
9.6 Establish special financial assistance schemes, and/or link existing
support schemes to groups, to start production facilities for farm inputs.
9.7 Develop local linkages for low-cost input materials to farmers and ensure
markets for good quality input materials at reasonable prices.
9.8 Steps may be taken to formulate the organic farming packages developed
by the Agricultural University in collaboration with organic farmers.
Priority may be given for crops like banana, ginger, pineapple, vegetables,
pepper, cardamom, paddy, etc.
9.9 Prepare a database on the organic content of the soil in different zones of
Kerala.
9.10 Ensure the quality of fruits and vegetables coming from other states.
Strategy 10: Capacity-building for farmers, implementing officers,
agencies, and local self-government members.
Actions
10.1 Conduct orientation, training, and exposure-visit programs.
10.2 Group of 10-20 unemployed youth in each Panchayat (50 percent
women) in the model of kudumbasree would be designated as “Karshaka
Sevakar” [and] trained in all facets of organic farm management,
supported through Local Self Government Institution programs to assist
farmers in organic farming.
10.3 Develop the existing Agro-clinics of the Department of Agriculture
into Organic Farming Resource Centers, and the staff should be given
training on organic farming.
10.4 Create awareness on organic farming practices among the agriculture
officers in the Agriculture Department.
