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What We Do

What We Do

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Ek Sankalp has worked towards empowering and increasing the incomes of marginalized smallholder farmers through technical know-how on sustainable agriculture, growing high-value crops, and reducing their costs & risks.

We collaborate with Harvestify Pvt Ltd a for-profit social enterprise to help us achieve our goals.

Encourage Ways to Increase Farmer Income

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At Ek Sankalp, we encourage farmers to sustainably grow premium, high-yield varieties of crops that are in high demand.

We further connect them to suitable mandis(agriculture produce markets) and with the help of pre-contract production of specific crops, they are able to avoid the risk of price volatility and sell their crops with the best returns.

Facilitate Access to Productive Resources & Knowledge

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At Ek Sankalp, we build farmer knowledge through various training sessions on sustainable farming methods.

We enhance the productivity of smallholder farmers by assisting them with suitable high yield and profitable crops with access to quality seeds and planting materials.

We increase farmer awareness and encourage them to use organic fertilizers rich in various macro & micronutrients like calcium and magnesium that slowly release nitrogen, thus limiting leaching & acidification and improving soil structure and water content.

For appropriate maintenance of crop health and pre-harvest loss, we help them access affordable biological inputs.

Help them connect with current government schemes to avail the benefits of government grants to build initial resources.

We make them aware of the importance and uses of digitalization.

We assist farmers in purchasing agricultural inputs from legitimate digital sources.

We educate them on how to mitigate post-harvest loss and better storage of harvest.

Propagate Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture

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At Ek Sankalp the farmers are trained to increase soil organic carbon (Carbon sequestering)and biodiversity in croplands through.

Cover crops and crop rotation: They are taught crop rotation, which includes cover crops, perennial grasses, and legumes to maintain a high proportion of active carbon.

Straw and manure incorporation: Straw and manure incorporation increase soil organic carbon, as organic matter is directly inputted back into the soil.

Reduced/minimum tillage: We pay special attention to conservation tillage like Strip-or zone tillage, creating a tilled seedbed 5 to 7 inches wide along the plant-rooting-zone, leaving the rest of the field undisturbed, and Ridge-tillage creating permanent soil ridges on top of which crops are grown. This requires minimal soil disturbance, keeping at least 30 percent of the soil covered by crop residue.

Use of bacteria fertilizers: We pursue efforts to build soil carbon. Biological nitrogen fixation can fuel CO2 sequestration. Hence, we propagate the use of Azotobacter Vinelandii, Azotobacter fertilizer which is able to convert atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which in turn is taken up and utilized by the plants. Similarly, Rhizobiumbiological fertilizer nitrogen fixation (BNF). This symbiosis speeds up carbon sequestration while reducing nitrogen loss.

The practices listed above will ultimately help to increase soil organic matter, create healthier, more resilient environments for plants to thrive in, and keep more and more carbon where it belongs.



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