BISWANATH CHARIALI, Jan 17 - At a time when the state is reeling under the pressure of massive unemployment and witnessing mass exodus of youths to other states like Karnataka, Panjub, Gujrat, Kerela etc seeking job opportunities, a provincialised higher secondary school under Behali Legislative Assembly Constituencey in Biswanath district has come forward with a new technique of agriculture.
The effort made by the school has now become a talk of the town. The school - Ginjia Mahabir Higher Secondary School situated at Ginjia, around 25 kilometres away from Biswanath Chariali- has become a focal point of agriculture. The said school has grown a large vegetable garden inside the school campus and the need for the vegetables required in the daily mid-day-meal is thus met with the fresh vegetables produced in the garden.
The Principal of the school, Tankeswar Borah, told this correspondent that they had been experiencing the need of fresh vegetables in their mid-day meal served to the students for the last couple of years. The vegetables bought from the market were not sufficient to them and those were also not hygienic for small children as pesticides and chemicals are used in large-scale in such type of vegetables.
Therefore, a certain idea came to their mind and they decided to grow vegetables themselves in the abandoned land owned by the school. The teachers including Pabitra Sharma, Pratap Dev etc and employees came forward to offer a helping hand in this respect and thus the idea came to a reality almost two years back. They started to cultivate different verities of seasoned vegetables which include gourd, radish, mustard, cabbage, carrot, bean, pumpkin, chilly, pea, potato, tomato, green vegetables etc.
The vegetables produced in the garden are totally organic and no chemical or pesticide is used in their vegetables. A separate garden with various types of banana trees has also been created in the campus and significantly, banana leaves and trunks are used to serve meal to the students. It helps them to avoid the use of plastic disposable plates as much as possible. Around 573 numbers of students are served mid-day meal daily with fresh vegetables produced in the garden.
