Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 22
Dedicated to 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM), an NGO, is going to hold ‘kudarti kheti- kudarti sehat karajshala’ awareness programme for four days, ie from March 13 to March 16 in Sultanpur Lodhi.
The event will be dedicated to farming, nutrition, health, and environment. The discussion on such topics would start at 9 am till 7 pm. Experts from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Rohtak will attend the programme and apprise the farmers and public on the above- mentioned topics.
From Madhya Pradesh, Tarachand Belji, while Khadir Wali from Karnataka, Atul Shah and Subhash Sharma from Maharashtra, Shiv Darshan Malik from Rohtak will also attend the programme. At the event, special seeds of millets will also be distributed among the farmers.
The members associated with the NGO informed that rice and wheat were never Punjab’s crops, but were introduced during the Green Revolution. “Millets brought from South India would be given here to the farmers, so that they could be encouraged to sow the millets which are way healthier than wheat and rice,” the members informed Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM), an NGO, which has been working to promote organic farming for years. The NGO is also known to lead the fight against genetically modified (GM) food also. The NGO, had distributed cards to the residents of Jalandhar and made them sign them in a protest against GM mustard. Every Sunday, the KVM organises a special market, ‘Kudrati Kisan Haat’, at Eklavya School, to promote and provide organic products to people directly from the farmers at a reasonable price.
More than volunteers of the KVM from Jalandhar have become a part of the initiative. The market is held from 12 pm to 2 pm. Recently, KVM had also adopted a musical medium to reach out to the farmers and to give them a message of not to burn paddy straw. ,Dharti di hik na saado’, ‘phooko na paraliya’, rab da waasta kade na saado’, ‘kheta vich parali nu’, these were some of the other Punjabi songs that were released by the NGO.