A Progressive Farmer – Kalu Lal Meena

Farmer Kalu Lal Meena, a resident of Partapur block of Salumber district, doing vegetable farming in half bigha of land. Earlier, he used to use chemical fertilizers and manure in his field. Earlier he did not grow vegetables. He used to buy vegetables from the market for household consumption. Due to this, the health of the family started deteriorating day by day. During a meeting organized by Rajmeru Sanstha, he got information about organic farming. Kalu Lal expressed his interest in organic farming.  Rajmeru Sanstha explained the importance of organic farming to the farmers and also made efforts to enhance the sustainable livelihood of farmers.

Rajmeru organization not only inspired people to do organic farming by providing seeds but also told them the methods of farming to increase the yield.

After getting technical training and vegetable seeds, Kalu Lal sowed all the seeds in his field and used organic fertilizer and manure. With the hard work of Kalu Lal and the support of Rajmeru, Kalu Lal got a bumper yield of tomatoes in one season and earned an income of about 45 thousand rupees.