Organic Haat

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Organic Haat

01-September-2014

Sustainable Food Network Indore , in its 4 th meeting held at Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development at Sanwadiya, on 31 August,2014,have finalized the starting of the weekly Haat soon in Bicholi Mardana opposite to Vidya Sagar College. Mr Ambrish Kela has very kindly offered to provide the space for the weekly haat where the organic farmers from nearby villages can bring their food products like grains, lintels, spices ,vegetables and fruits and sell directly to the buyers. Network members Mr. Ambrish Kela, Dr. Arun Dike, Mr Dilip Singh leading organic farmer, Mr Nareshwar Singh, Ms Susmita Bhattacharjee, Mr Ravi Gupta, Mrs Ranu Mr Jayash & Jaiswal, Mrs. Nanda and Rajendra Chouhan and local farmers ,Master of Social work and MBA students form DAVV had consultative meeting . Janak Palta McGilligan the founder of this Network welcomed all the members and gave a brief information about the main purpose of the Network is to promote sustainable food i.e organic products and to promote sustainable food processing using Natural/Renewal resources like Bio-gas, Solar Energy . Mr Dilip Singh Tomer shared his success story of organic farming .The Network is in the process of identifying the available organic products as well as the genuine and committed organic farmers . All the data and information will be submitted to Mr Ravi Gupta the coordinator of the Network. Network will seek inputs from experienced and organic farmers about running and sustaining this haat. Participants could also see 9 different types of Solar Cookers and other solar devices at Jimmy McGilligan Centre. After the meeting, all the participants went to see the proposed site for the weekly Haat and were very thankful to Mr. Ambrish Kela who came forward for this cause of facilitating the sustainable food. Janak Palta gave the vote of Thanks