Our journey in field of organic cultivation dates back to the year 2009 when it was only a passion and not a profession. This passion brought us in contact with farmers who were zero budget natural farmers of repute and did not use any input from outside their farm and relied upon traditional inputs made of cow urine, cow dung, chick pea floor, neem leaves, green chili, ginger, garlic and jaggery. Within two cropping seasons, we discovered that their inputs were inadequate for nitrogen guzzling vegetables, size was an issues and it did not solve the problem of disease and pest efficiently. This ignited an insatiable thirst for knowledge to mitigate the problems of organic farming and to link traditional organic farming with science. Our thirst led us to various agriculture universities, online research papers, seminars, experts, organic regions, certification agencies, organic fairs, bio pesticides and fungicide manufacturers. We also did a comparative study of organic practices in Apple cultivation among a few countries of Europe and North America. When knowledge acquired from various sources was put into sequence, a picture began to emerge. It was around the same time that we came in contact with organic farmers of various regions of Himachal Pradesh, who were facing problems of disease and pest in their fields for many years with no solution what’s so ever. Many of them had suffered huge losses on account of organic farming. The climate and soil of Himachal Pradesh was ideal to put our knowledge into practice and we ushered ourselves whole heartedly in solving problems one by one and from one cropping season to another. The results obtained from one organic region were shared with the farmers of other region and the lessons were learnt. It has been a journey of ups and downs and if success has been achieved, then majority of credit goes to our dedicated team and farmers who bestowed their faith in our ideas. It was also necessary to provide respectable price for organic produce to the farmers and to differentiate the organic from the conventional. Here credit goes to our esteemed vendors and distributors who paid good price for our produce and undertook the difficult task of distribution.
