WOMAN WHO SHOWS HOW ORGANIC FOOD IS GROWN

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Monday, 05 March 2018 |  | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar

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If you want to have organic food, you would have to do it yourself. It is possible even in a small patch of land. This has been proved by Jabanika Bagartti of Khariar town of Nuapada district. The vegetable garden in about ten-decimal area in her backyard is now full of vegetable plants with some having fruits and others flowering.
Jabanika is a homemaker. She spends one to two hours daily in her garden to take care of the plants. "It is my hobby; I enjoy it," she says while plucking a yellow cucumber from a plant and presenting it to this correspondent. "Everyone of our family spares sometime in the garden," she adds.
There are twelve rows of raised soil beds having as many as ten types of plants, not only local varieties also species that are not usually cultivated in the locality; like yellow cucumber, lettuce and broccoli. Other varieties include tomato, sweet corn, carrot and beet, etc. The lush green plants look healthy. "It is sufficient for our family; we don't depend upon the market," says Jabanika. Expressing her aversion towards chemicals, she adds, "Vermin is the only source of nutrition that keeps the soil fauna healthy. This soil appears like an inert material to those who do not feel the life in it."
There is a vermi-compost pit on one side of the vegetable field in an open shed, which produces sufficient vermin for use. Adjacent to the compost shed is located the cowshed, which provides the dung required for the compost. 
The investment for cultivating the plot is not much, informed Jabanika. The water pump is a onetime investment and the rest are small recurring costs, like the cost of seeds and wages for occasional helping hands. "We should understand the organic cultivation serves two purposes; it keeps our health good and, at the same time, improves the quality of soil tremendously," says Jabanika.

Jabanika's interest and love for growing plants has made her sensitive towards plants and soil; and in the process, the soil has been transformed into a part of her life.

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