The umpteen campaigns favouring organic farming and cultivation of essential vegetables at home may prompt some to take a fancy for cultivation but in reality, it is no child’s play.
Organic farming or cultivating vegetables at home requires some know-how.
Help may have been scarce before but now, a website set up by a progressive residential forum in the city is offering tips online for such aspiring farmers.
The website, named krishippura , developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) as part of its community service initiative, was launched during a public function on the institute campus here recently.
Under different heads, the website provides a comprehensive guideline on how to go about organically cultivating different items of fruits and vegetables suitable for different seasons.
Among other things, it provides a calendar for cultivation, crops details, instructions for soil management, and guideline for water management.
Under the link ‘Crop Calendar,’ one would get an idea of what to cultivate when and where. Specifications required for the soil bed (in case the cultivation is on a field), distance needed between the seeds, and other tips are also given in this section.
The sitehttp:// www.krishippura. niravu.comwas developed by K. Arun and Akifa Rahman, two computer science students from the NIT-C. residential forum, which is hosting the site.
