Objectives of the Course
Several city based young people are interested in agricultural initiatives; they want to return to the soil, but find it difficult to adjust with realities of rural life. Moreover, they may not have thought of farming without intensive technology and chemicals. The course on ‘Ecological Farming Training for Better Health’ is excitingly geared to bridge these gaps. Even a city-bred person can learn how to produce food on his own land. And what is wonderful is that this food can be clean and chemical free!
Who is the Course For?
This course will be held for educated, city-based young people with a curiosity and pang for farming. If you are one, you are invited to explore a new world of possibilities while working closely with nature.
Context of the Course
Small and marginal farmers are being pushed to extinction. The current agricultural crisis and the farmers situation in the era of globalization, increasing capitalization of agriculture, chemical intensive and bio-technology oriented farming and implications of soil and water degradation or depletion has serious implications for farmers’ livelihoods. The course will demonstrate the possibilities for survival of the small farm in such a context.
Food is our most basic need, the very stuff of life. As monocultures replace biodiversity crops, farming is transformed from the production of nourishing and diverse foods into the creation of markets for seed company products. At the same time, farmers are being transformed from producers to consumers of corporate-patented agriculture products. To arrest these two worrisome trends in agriculture, a series of short courses on ecological farming training for better health is being proposed by Baduku College of SAMVADA.
It is a two days traininig program, Send your querries, comments about training program to my e-mail address
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