| Description | The origin of Morarka Foundation’s field activities from Nawalgarh, a semi-arid region on the periphery of the Thar Desert in India, has been a blessing in disguise. Extreme climates, very high temperatures, less than 500mm annual rainfall with only about 20 rainy days in a year, undulating lands, sandy soils and very little water for irrigation offered perfect conditions for testing the new technologies and methodologies for organic management. Anything which could succeed here would have a very high success potential elsewhere, and this has been amply evident in the overall success achieved in last 10 years. Beginning with just about 500 farmers about 10 years ago, today there are now over 1,00,000 farmers spread all over India cultivating over 2,50,000 acres land under organic management. These farmers are producing over 300 different crops, out of which over 100 crops have already been brought under the organic value chain management. |
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