have introduced the technique of multistory farming in their Kulabag. They are now been able to take more harvest of their organic fruits like pine apple and banana and the spice grown in between the open space between the arecanuts.

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has had a healthy crop of the saplings they had purchased from Dhappoli and vengurle. The farmers club had the plantation of Cinnamon in their Kulabag however only the leaves (TEJ Patta/Bay Leaves) were sold by the farmers. From the exposure visit the farmers learnt the technique of harvesting the cinnamon for the bark. During Dr.Bingarde & Mr.Vinayak Kamats visit to the Nuvem Farmers Club, the farmers were trained the technique of cutting the bark to harvest the cinnamon. This year the farmers from Dhavorlim farmers club & Nuvem Farmers Club have supplied dry cinnamon along with dry pepper to the Banastari market. The farmers have grown chille and other organic vegetables, which are grown in the form of terrace farming. The exposure visit gave them inputs to carry out cultivation in rocky areas where they have cultivated chilles.

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has introduced mechanized farming. They have also introduced the technique of Organic farming and four of their farmers have been successfully growing organic vegetables like the red spinach, Reddish, bean, cluster beans, lady finger of seven edges, brinjals and turnib.

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have introduced the organic techniques of growing fruits like Mangoes, Jack fruits, chickoos , Bananas , Spices in their Kulabag. The replacement of chemical fertilizers with vermi compost and using of EM solutions has not only helped them in increasing the quality of the yield but has also motivated farmers to take up vermi compost as a business.

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has been very successful in the vermi compost business as they have been selling vermicompost to nurseries, horticultural outlets and in Exhibitions @Rs.30/- per Kg.

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