One For India - 2009 | AID India

Revival of Organic Agriculture in Aila affected areas

NGO : Mukti, BTS
Location: Sundarbans, West Bengal
Area of work : Agriculture, Rehabilitation
Amount supported : $5350
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Large swathes of agricultural land was submerged in saline water raising fears that cultivation could not be resumed for several years. AID Saathi Revathi, an organic farmer, who had experience in land reclamation after Tsunami worked with BTS and Mukti to train farmers in inexpensive organic methods to reclaim land for cultivation. Not only was land reclaimed, the yield of rice was better than conventional farming by the end of November.

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