Objectives of Sustainable Agriculture Program by ACTIVE are :

  • To educate on better utilization of water resources.
  • To develop ground water level.
  • To reduce the usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
  • To promote conventional practices and achieve high yield levels.

More than 80% of rural population depends on agriculture. But due to lack of knowledge, care and skills, the agriculture is not giving good yields/results. Hence, people are migrating to coastal areas or to the cities. Mostly men are migrating to other areas leaving women and children in the same village. Men generally make illegal contacts with other women in the new areas and gets infections. Once a while they will visit their own village and transfer his infections to his wife/children. After some time, men who migrate to cities settle in the new areas and unofficially leave their wives. Therefore, most of the women & children in the villages are forced to prostitution for the livelihood/survival.

Farmers are changing their minds with the influence of media and commercial companies and shifting from food crops to commercial crops. Commercial crops require more fertilizers & pesticides and cash to meet wages. That means to raise commercial crops like cotton, chilly, tobacco etc., needs more capital, which is not available with these marginal farmers. Therefore, these farmers are approaching moneylenders and mobilizing capital for commercial crops. Since, the climate is not favoring to commercial crops, farmers are experiencing crop failures. If any farmer faces continuously two crop failures, he has to sell his agriculture land to clear the debts. Some sensitive farmers are committing suicide to overcome harassment from the moneylenders.

In other hand, by using more chemical fertilizers and pesticides the agricultural lands day by day loose its fertility and after some years, become barren and it will not be suitable for cultivation. Chemicals are not only affecting land but also to the water, atmosphere, birds, animals which are eco friendly to the agriculture.

Since, more chemicals are used in the agriculture, the food grains; vegetables are containing dangerous chemical effects. Therefore, the people are now leading life with many health problems. Especially newly born and infant children face so many problems. In recent studies it was found that there are chemical influences even in the mother’s milk. The time has come now that, everybody should think how dangerous situation, we are leading our life now.

Due to illegal felling of tress, there was fast run off of water during the rains and because of that, gullies were formed and fertile soils were eroded. Farmers are thinking of present benefit and felling the tress. Due to lack of tress the monsoons are also got disturbed and animals face problem of grazing. Farmers sell out animal due to non availability of grazing hence, natural manure is not available to the agriculture.

Unless/until the natural resources are conserved/protected the situation in the villages is not improved. The farmers need to revive the situation and should create positive atmosphere to agriculture for which farmers are required needed knowledge, skills and financial resources. Hence, ACTIVE society planned agricultural programmes for the sustainable development.

Sustainable Agriculture Activities of ACTIVE include :

  • Farmers Training
  • Demo Plants
  • Compost Pits
  • Wormy Culture
  • Dry Land Horticulture