“It is the time to create dreams of agripreneurship
based on sustainable use of local resources with the principle of Local people
– Local Food – Local economy and school gardens must be the start.”- Farmer Samir Bordoloi

Child’s
Nutrition is better when the child enjoys eating food that is served . The
corporations have lots of ways and means to lure the child towards those food
items which are less nutritive and not safe in comparison to indigenous food .
When the child learns to plant a food crop and he harvest it and takes in his
diet , the kid is happy to eat own grown food . So making them grow their own
food also develops the interest of the kid on the food he/she is eating leading
to proper digestion and consumption. Hence, an organic school nutrition garden
can be a beautiful tool to develop nutritional stewardship among young minds.
The garden can also be a tool to provide Activity-based learning to the
students by linking their textbook contents to the garden activities . It can
also build a scientific temperament among young minds as their curious brain in
the garden area will make them to search for many solutions . Gardening is
another best method to inculcate lots of life skills like passion , compassion
, love , patience , problem solving attitude etc. among young minds.

When for the
first time the child learns about food in schools , they learn more about the
exotic food items . A child learning vegetables from a Chart in the Nursery
class get exposed to pictures of hybrid and those vegetables which are not
local and whose seeds the farmer cannot keep for the next season . Thus , from
Nursery onward the food identification is shifted to some crops that are not
local . It’s important to bring back the local food wisdom and school nutrition
gardens with local crops can sow the seed of local people eating local food and
building strong local economy in the mind-set of the future responsible
citizens. Christ in the Bible has mentioned that when he created man , he
created food for human beings by creating some herbs that yield seeds. It’s
clearly mentioned to eat those herbs as food that produces viable seeds to carry
on the legacy.
To make farming
profitable , cost of cultivation has to be brought down . Dependency on
external inputs has to be reduced by sustainable use of provincial natural
resources. Utilization of locally available resources in farming is done since
generations . But these practices are vanishing due to the chemical intensive
modern day farming system . But the bad effects of chemical fertilizers and
pesticides and as a whole the Industrial Agriculture has
As Sustainable
Development Goal aims at conserving nature and sustainable use of natural
resources in farming , plans are made to conserve seeds , soil , water and
other resources. In the same way it is the time to conserve farming as a
profession as most of the rural youths are migrating out of farming as a
livelihood. If farmer’s kids doesn’t come to farming , the whole food industry
will move to the hands of big Corporations. Thus , farmers must be converted to
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