PANAJI
Nuvem MLA Wilfred Dsa today supported the kitchen farming and kitchen gardening concept mooted by Project Goemcho Goenkar to boost farming and growing of fruits and vegetables in the State, with an aim to making Goa totally self-sufficient in farm produce including fruits and vegetables, most of which have to be imported from neighbouring states.
A unique drive to promote cultivation and other farming activity in the Nuvem constituency by Wilfred Dsa has seen a 50 percent increase in the activity in the locality over the last one year.
“More and more locals are cultivating their land in Nuvem and even other cultivation of produce like fruits and vegetables, water melons and cereals etc., has increased over the last one year,” Dsa said.
Dsa has provided tractors and other farming equipment to the farmers of Nuvem, which has motivated others to take up the trade once again.
According to Dsa, people of Nuvem have taken to agriculture and farming in a very big way this year and by the end of the coming year, Nuvem will be totally self-sufficient when it comes to agricultural produce, including most fruits and vegetables.
The Covid-19 induced lockdown was another great incentive for the locals to take up farming this year.
The concept of kitchen gardening or kitchen farming has mushroomed in Nuvem with hundreds of new families taking up kitchen gardening, growing fruits and vegetables in their backyards.
Project Goemcho Goenkar is promoting kitchen farming or kitchen gardening in the State of Goa, with Nuvem leading the pack.
Many people splurge on imported, advertised ‘natural’ products, when some of the best sources of a healthy diet can be grown and produced in one’s backyard, says Wilfred Dsa who wants to further double the farm output in his constituency by 100 per cent in 2021.
Fatima Figueiredo, sister of globally-celebrated Goan artist Mario Miranda, has been farming since 2012 on her ancestral land in Nuvem that was lying barren for decades. She is one of the glowing examples of locals who have taken to farming in a big way in Nuvem.
At least 5 new mass kitchen farming initiatives will be launched in Nuvem in the new year 2021 says Dsa, who is determined to make Nuvem the vegetable and fruits granary of Goa.
Meanwhile, more than 300 churches, chapels and other famous places of worship in Goa will be digitized using the lasted future-proof technology for posterity.
The digitization process of centuries-old churches in Goa, using 4D holographic recording equipment and 3D videography technology has already begun.
