NGO launches programme to help with farming practices
The Vermi Compost Project is like an organic farming method involving vermin composting. Vermi composting is a modified and specialised method of composting that uses earthworms which eat and digest farm wastes and turn out high quality compost in two months or less.
The project is being implemented in 100 villages and will benefit more than 300 families. The fund of $30,000 required for the project is being donated by North Carolina-based financial firm- Shah Capital.
To implement the program in a most efficient way, three families from each of the 100 villages will be charged with managing operations that include cultivating, bagging, storing, transporting, and selling the compost.
It is being believed that the project will not only empower the farmers but will also make them self sustained to increase their revenue by selling the compost and also by using them on their own fields.
