Kudumbashree to provide all vegetables needed for Onasadya: Minister
Kudumbashree will provide all vegetables needed for the Onam sadya this year, Minister for Local Self-government M.B. Rajesh has said.
He was speaking after performing the State-level inauguration of the Kudumbashree's Onakani project at Kottukal panchayat here on Wednesday.
Onakani is a project to make available safe and pesticide-free vegetables to the people for the Onam festival. 'Onam with Kudumbashree' is the theme.
Onam kits that include vegetables for the sadya, pickle, chips, payasam mix, and spice powders will be readied as part of Onakani. For this, the Kudumbashree has increased the land under cultivation four times. As much as 25,680 acres of land is under cultivation this year as compared to 6,800 acres last year. The Kudumbashree achieved a turnover of ₹7.8 crore through sale of vegetables and flowers last year.
This year, hybrid seeds made available through its Jaivika plant nurseries will be cultivated. Each Kudumbashree community development society (CDS) will be sanctioned up to ₹25,000 as revolving fund.
Training to the women farming groups in technical aspects such as preparing the land, sapling production, crop maintenance, and pest control will be given. A market for the vegetables will be found by the Kudumbashree.
Kottukal CDS chairperson Vimala K. gifted Kudumbashree products to the Minister. Kottukal panchayat president Chandralekha K. spoke. District panchayat president D. Suresh Kumar presided.
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