Inspiring Sustainable Farmer-Ranjit Samanta

       Ranjit Samanta is a resident of Mamudpur village of Hingalganj Block. For the last three years, we are running village Krishipathshala (agriculture training school) in different parts of Hingalganj. 2 (IN 2007) years ago he visited one of our agri -schools and met our staff, Narayan Bachar and Nishambhu Sarkar. He was very impressed after seeing our activities and immediately joined one of our farmer’s groups, NABACHETANA. Gradually he got training on making bio-composts and bio-pest controllers and learned the necessity of Land Shaping. In 2008, one of our main focuses was to promote the use of pond sludge in the field and he used it very successfully and got miracle production from his field.

        In September, 2008 he applied for a land shaping grant from NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) schemes for his 2.5 Bigha farmland and his scheme was sanctioned in October,08. Our staff, Nishambhu Sarkar gave technical guidance during the Earth work in his field. From, 2009 he became a complete organic farmer. Presently he is producing Fish, Duck, Amaranth,Egg plant, Indian spinach, Okra, Tomato, Cowpea, Bitter gourd, Field bean, Spinach, Sweet Pumpkin etc in his field.

        His land shaping has become a center for excellence in Mamudpur GP. So far many Govt. officials have visited his place and advised the farmers to visit that land shaping. We provided him some amount of saline sustainable paddy seeds, like Nonasree and Kerala Sundari after the devastating AILA. At present he is one of our successful producers of such paddy verities in Hingalganj.

Below, there is an income-expenditure statement of his land shaping plot from August, 09 to Oct, 09….