Drop by Drop…

It was the DSN at Ranchi and the journey was arduously  adventurous as nature played spoil sport. First, the train didn’t arrive for 28 hours and then we no longer expected it to arrive. Then a flight to Delhi from Lucknow took off and returned when it was five minutes away from its destination, back to Lucknow due to excessive fog. Next flight delayed, a flight missed and finally I reached Ranchi from Kanpur after 3 long days. It was a DSN happyning for me, also for Parmanu the teacher who organized it, while the participants frolicked their time as it was delayed by a day.The journey directly keyed itself into my servers of memory, while i write this after many many days.

The last day of the trip was unexpectedly enlightening. I went to visit a fully organic farm, based on the techniques of drip irrigation. The mountainous regions of jharkhand soil is least fertile to grow fuel for humans. Here one man our AOl teacher Praveenji has taken the yagna on land to convert filth to food, garbage to gold. It is a humungous task to even venture yourself into farming an infertile useless piece of land and the project looked imprudent and quixotic.  But a deeper look demonstrated differnt results.

Drip irrigation was recommended by Gurudev to him. Drip Irrigation is a matrix of valves, tubes and the water is directly sourced to the root zones of the entire plantation. An area of two acres which requires approx 1000 litres of water with the conventional land irrigation techniques requires only 100 litres with drip irrigation. With water tables tumbling in India this is the best way to save water. The process is the most valued innovation and is a practical alternative to surface irrigation. Drop by drop the entire land graces the roots of the freshly planted seeds, and the seeds with few drops will become saplings and mature into trees, ready to overflow with fruits and veggies.

The farm will produce vegetables and fruits and the net profit in 3 months is going to be 1.2 lakhs in a land of 2 acres. I, being from a concrete jungle gets overwhelmed when I see fresh broccoli getting ready to be surrendered. Fresh Chinese cabbage, earthworms swarming in the vermi compost pile ups and bio-gas being readied to produce electricity.

The farmers in the land cannot fathom the idea of using traditional techonological methods to make land fertile and our yuvacharya Sonaram has readied his land for farmers to tour and make this a reality in the state of Jharkhand. He has toured 1600 villages and formulated Sri Sri Kissan Samiti under the guidance of the teacher Praveenji.

Drop by drop there is divine intervention flooding the lives and farms of India…are you part of it ?

PS:- No excuses for being insincere with all of you and not posting regularly, will become more active and key in more frequently 🙂

This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. ashutosh

    nice to hear from you after such a long time:)

  2. Ranga

    Wonderful!

    Drops of heaven seeping into the earth, preparing itself for the coming generation. Hats off!

  3. girijesh

    excellant idea bhaiya…..drop to drop is a evolutionary step in saving water…n d future of organic farming is very bright n taking a shape of enterprenureship………well our Indore DSN was suparb….pls post sm snap of that………..lov u bhaiyaa……

  4. mayuri

    AWESOME……… SHOWS A NEW FACET OF YOU……… hope to read you more frequently……… for many many reasons…..

  5. Meghana

    Wow dada! Jgd
    Nice post…..a much awaited one…..this time in winter break, a scientist who is an ashramite(forgot his name) gave an expert talk on organic farming. It was an eye opener…..in fact all the expert talks were mind blowing….
    Rest is goin on well……
    Love
    Meghana

  6. Vishu Khandelwal

    Ultimate bhaiya, this is a great initiative…

  7. Savita

    Jai Grurdev Bhaiyaa!!!

  8. Abhishek

    Praveenji’s drip irigation
    Iis the cause of felicitation
    He’s an insipiration
    calls for a standing ovation
    thanks bhaiyya for blogation

    (we,l i mean for the blog)

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