Livelihood school for Organic Farming launched


Gangtok, Aug 6 (PTI) Nearly half of Sikkim's farmland has regained organic nutrients, state agriculture minister D N Thakarpa said."Nearly half of the land available for farming in the state has regained organic nutrients. Only five per cent of the available land is to be helped by organic farming," he said after inaugurating Livelihood School on Organic Farming here to train the field-level supervisors at Supervisors Training Institute at Tadong last evening.He said no chemical pesticides and fertilisers is being used in these patches of lands since 2003.National certifying agencies would be invited thrice a year here to study the ongoing organic farming and to give organic certification after due tests, sources said.