About Us

Zero Costs Organiic is a Pvt. Ltd. Company registered under Company’s Act with office in Kolkata and farm in Jhargram District. The Company is founded by four of us who are passionate about Agro and Rural development with technological and business experience.

Vegetables

Fruits

Mission

We are in process of setting up a 40-acre Organic farm. In this farm we will create 20-30 one-acre sustainable farming models or Vegetable, Fruits and Medicinal Plants with profitable application of different farming techniques such as Drip Irrigation, Solar Power, Rain Water Harvesting, Bio Gas, Organic fertiliser and pesticide, Vermicompost, Agri-drones, farm equipment and tools, Precision farming, Hydroponic Polyhouse etc..

Once, we are ready to showcase our models, we will start training farmers and motivate them to follow our models. We aim to create a cumulative zero chemical farm of about 1000 acres in 3 years.

We will also build farm to fork marketing model with strong online presence along with mini food processing centres to get maximum values for farmers for their farm produce.

Vision

Alleviate Poverty, Improve Environment, Prosperous Farmer and Healthy food.

We plan to create a farming ecosystem for small and marginal farmers with very small land holding.

Our project aims for hand holding farmers in Farm-Aggregate-Process-Sell Model and motivate them to use modern technical interventions for sustainable and profitable farming.

We expect multi-fold increase in farm income for small farmers and chemical free healthy food for masses

Why farmers living in poverty?

Total Land in India is about 80 Cr Acre. Out of which 50-54 Cr Acre is available for Agriculture. After accounting for Waste Land, Grass Land and forest land, total land used for agriculture is about 40-42 Cr Acre.

There are 16 Cr farmer families holding on Average 2.5-3 Acre land. Out of which Almost 13 Cr farmers are holding only 0-2.5 Acre land with an average of 1 Acre. Worst of all 8 Cr farmers hold land less than 1 Acre. Another 2-3 Cr land less farm workers depends on farming activity for their livelihood.

Value of gross annual agriculture production in India including Fisheries, Dairy and animal rearing is about Rs. 40 Lakh Cr. about Rs 1 Lakh per Acre. After accounting for high value products and multi crop farms about 8 Cr farmers are left with rain-fed, single crop and small holding with average yield less than Rs 50000/- per Acre. 50% being farm input cost, most farmers are left with meagre income of Rs 10000/- to Rs 20000/- per annum from their farming activities. This makes farming very very unsustainable leading to extreme poverty for farmers. Eventually it leads to exodus of youth to near by urban areas or civil construction sites in search of livelihood as unskilled daily labour earning a meagre sum of about Rs 25000/- per annum.

Following factors are making farming even more stressful
Unavailability of Good quality seeds in remote villages
Poor market link, not getting proper value for their produce
On farm wastage of farm products for improper facilities and delays
Erratic rains
Unavailable irrigation facility
Rampant use of chemicals leading to poor soil quality.
Lack of modern technologies, knowhow and tools at farm level
Cutting trees for firewood for cooking

How to make
Farming Sustainable
and
Farmers Prosperous

Following Measures may help in increasing farmer’s income
Improve yield by adopting better farming techniques
Create facilities such as irrigation, rain water harvesting to reduce dependency on rain and to facilitate multiple crops
Make available better quality seeds
Change crop pattern to opt for high value crops in at least a part of the land
Reduce Cost of inputs such as fertiliser and pesticides by switching to home made organic fertiliser and pesticide
Optimum and economic use of all locally available resources such as water bodies, empty land, foliage
Create awareness and promote kitchen garden
Reduce livelihood expenses by installing biogas plant
Establish community/cooperative owned micro food processing unit in villages
Switching to organic farming may help in realising better rates
Provide better market linkage to get better rate and generate more revenue
Utilise free time in learning vocational skills and generating self-employment opportunities