Project RAMNAGAR

PROJECT RAMNAGAR – Chennapatna, Karnataka

A good government official working in the government’s Biotechnology Center gave us insight into various medicinal crops. We came to know that a pump set is absolutely essential for multiple harvests. (Irony most villages don’t even have electricity.)

We have identified a farmer who owns a piece of land in Ramnagar. We plan to help him install a pump set. We are in touch with ayurvedic companies like Himalaya and Divya Yog Mandir (yet to contact) to know their medicinal plant requirement.

We then plan to help these farmers to get the herbal plants and help farmers to sell the produce to Himalaya (who can get it at a rate lesser than their import price.)

This farmer in turn, has promised help other farmers in his village.

This initiative, it our desire, should spread as a movement where the urban population helps the rural in an organized way. The cultivation of this family is entirely dependent of rain water.

We propose to fund a significant part of the expense for providing resources to increase the income from their land. This would increase their income nearly thrice. We are working on identifying the right range of medicinal plants for cultivation along side their routine produce like Rice, Ragi and Peanuts.

Hopefully we will guide them to have a captive market for their medicinal plants. There is a huge demand for herbal or medicinal plants. As much as 90% of herbal plants used in Ayurvedic medicines are imported from outside the country.

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