Express News Service
First Published : 04 Feb 2010 02:07:30 AM IST
KOLLAM: The Vegetable & Fruit Promotion Council Kerala (VFPCK) under the Agriculture Department has launched vegetable cultivation in the Laksham Veedu colonies.
The project, christened as ‘Laksham Veettil Lakshyam Pachakkari’, is aimed at producing vegetables, free from chemicals and pesticides.
In the first phase, the vegetables will be cultivated on the premises of the houses and then expanded to lands kept barren with the help of the panchayats.
The project also aims at making the residents of Laksham Veedu colonies self-reliant.
Those who are participating in the vegetable cultivation will be given ‘Cancer Care for Life’ certificates of the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC). A person will get the benefit of Rs 50,000 from the project.
NGOs will sponsor the cost for the cancer care certificates. Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran will inaugurate the distribution of cancer care certificates to 100 people at Chithara on February 5.
The VFPCK will honour Gews-Agro Service chairman Kollam Panicker, literary person, farm journalist and promoter of the bio-farming who has sponsored Rs 50 lakh for giving cancer care certificates to 100 people, by awarding Manava Seva Puraskar on the occasion.
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