The Indian markets seem to be flooded with organic food items. And the credit of this quick spread of organic farming goes to the Morarka foundation run by industrialist Kamal Morarka.  Morarka foundation’s managing director Mukesh Gupta says that this farming is helpful for the farmers in terms of production, savings and health. This increases both the quality and quantity of the product. As a result, the farmers are adopting this mode of farming. Farmers even can sell the organic products on a higher rate. At present, Morarka foundation is running organic farming in 15 states. Mukesh Gupta is even the president of ICCOA( international competence centre for organic agriculture). ICCOA works in the field of marketing of organic products at national and international level as well. Today, the country is facing the scarcity of food items and price of food items is rising day by day while food worth 60 thousand crores is getting wasted every year. But, this can be controlled through organic farming. The reason behind this is that the organic food lasts for a longer time. Also, this farming doesn’t require much water for irrigation. Mukesh Gupta says that the organic food comes as a healthy substitute at the time when we are consuming adulterated food. Morarka foundation has started organic farming in many places of the country including shekhavati in Rajasthan. The efforts of this foundation are so result oriented that the vegetables (tomato, brinjal, green chilli, onion, garlic, carrot, bitter gourd, peas etc) cultivated in Shekhavati are available in the markets of Delhi and Mumbai throughout the year. Organic farming has given a tremendous increase of 30-40 p.c. in the income of the farmers too.

Mukesh Gupta says that Morarka foundation provides suitable training for the farmers regarding various aspects of organic farming. The biggest contribution of this foundation lies in opening the first and biggest retail store of organic products with name of down to earth in Mumbai. The foundation has succeeded in expanding the organic farming in one lakh acres of land till date. For this, Worm culture is being adopted on a larger scale. Mukesh Gupta says that the worms are used to transform the garbage in worming compost and organic fertilizers. This popular style of making fertilizer and pesticide of Shekhavati has reached to Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Himanchal Pradesh. He further says that the worms are being exported to many developed countries of the world and our efforts will enable India to establish it’s self as the biggest name in the field of organic farming.