Farmers training – bioRe has been making sincere
efforts to improve quality of life of organic farming communities
working with us . Organic and biodynamic farming are the appropriate and
affordable farming techniques in improving soil fertility and brining
up economy of farming communities. Farmers’ training is a key at bioRe.
The training curriculum is designed as per the needs of the farmers.
Major contents of this programme are basic principles of organic and
biodynamic farming, soil fertility management, pest management, women’s
training, formation of women’s groups and exposure visits etc.
Every bioRe farmers receives quality training every year. A training
team of 5 members work round the year on the farmers training issues.
Agriculture Research – bioRe is working on various agriculture research interventions. bioRe
Association together with Institute of organic agriculture (FiBl) has
launched long term system comparison trials. This research has been
designed for a period of no less than 10 years. Under this research we
observe four different farming systems i.e. biodynamic, organic, and
conventional and GMO in cotton, wheat and soyabean. The main intention
being to establish a scientific basis on performance and potential of
organic production system.
We are working on cotton pilot trial, pest control and cotton
cultivator evolution, these are trials from the year 2011. Cotton
cultivation trial (CCE) was initiated in collaboration with University
of Agriculture Science Dharwad. It’s one the largest and intense non GM
cotton breeding and evolution trials in India conducted on organic
conditions. bioRe intends to create a seed bank of non GM cotton for
farmers in future.