The training for women headed families and resettled people on organic farming

Training was held to the women headed families and resettled people to aware them on organic home garden in Batticaloa on 27^th of January 2014. 

Objective of the training-

Explaining Lavina Hasanthi, women coordinator of National Fisheries Solidarity about the objective of this training, she mentioned that although the women headed families as well as resettled people have involved home garden for many years they have faced some difficulties when they tried to garden according to the existing environment condition in Baticaloa district.  The women have discussed about this in many occasions. According to the women they face some major problems such as ;

1.     Involve to the home garden in dry seasons

2.     Destroy the garden due to various diseases

3.     Luck of knowledge to prepare compost

This practical training tries to give answers for above question as well as we try to aware and encourage women to engage with home garden, mentioned women coordinator 

Mr. M Pille who is the resource person explained about the important of engaging with home garden and practicing that correctly.

Conducting the training-

Group work-

  

All participants were divided for four groups and educated them on different methods to home garden

Group 1- how to garden using minimum water and natural manure

 

Group 2-     how to grow different verities in the same place with limited water

                   facilities      protecting from diseases

Group 3-4-  a. How to garden using a pot that burring in the earth with water 

                   b. Use a bottle of water to garden

                  

Each group shares their knowledge with other groups.

Contain of the training-

• Control  the diseases  through natural pesticides, making natural pesticides

• Making natural liquid manure and usage

• Make compost

• Prepare plots to garden

Feedback of the participants-

1.    

•  They said that although they are garden for years they did not know how to garden with limited water facilities. Today we were able to get  knowledge about that.

• Although we have participated to some training programs we were unable to get like this deep knowledge from these. This training is so good

• We used to have chemical pesticides for the garden. We have taken systematic knowledge  on how to garden using natural manure and natural pesticides.

The resource person agreed to hand over a booklet about home garden to  the participants .

Reported by Lavina Hasanthi