A two-day training programme was held on June 24-25 for local resource persons and cluster coordinators-cum-field inspectors by Clover Organic Pvt Ltd in collaboration with the District Horticulture Office of East Khasi Hills.
The purpose of the training was to create awareness and train the attendants on the basics of organic farming for implementing projects like Mission Organic Value Chain Development Phase IV and Meghalaya State Organic Mission 2.0. The main objectives of these two schemes aim at developing crop-specific organic production clusters, facilitating partnerships between farmers and organic businesses by promoting domestic and export trades and support for organic value chain development and creating market access, which will enhance the earnings of the farmers.
Resource persons from the Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) East Khasi Hills and Cooperation Department covered topics like formation and operations of a cooperative society, basics of organic farming as per National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) guidelines, field preparation, field management and soil sample collection, on-farm inputs preparation, plantation methodology, post-harvest practices and intercropping.
The mission of the Meghalaya government is to convert and declare the state fully organic by 2030.
