Now, farmers get live training from the fields

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 22

NGO Dr Surender Dalal Keet Saksharta Mission that was holding online classes for the farmers from the fields has now started holding classes in the fields where the farmers are called and are given live training.

Because of the pandemic, the meeting was being held on Google Meet, which the farmers were advised to download on their mobile phones. Ashok Kumar, Punjab coordinator of the NGO, said it was for the first time that an online class was held for farmers.

The mission has to its credit another first too. In a first-of-its kind, for the last three years, this NGO named ‘Dr Surinder Dalal Keet Saksharta Mission’, will not teach farmers in classes or in closed rooms, but in the fields and their farms to practically tell them why they do not need pesticides in their farms. The society selects those farms which are near the main road as it is convenient for participants to reach and participate.

The NGO is named after a Haryana-based scientist, Dr Surinder Dalal, who died in 2003 and gave a theory to farmers that the amount of fertilisers and pesticides that they were using in the fields was not required.