Natural Farming | RC-MTV-AGR-07/26 | 2026-01-01 - 2026-12-31 | AGRI,SOCI,MANU | Age: 18 - 60

RUCHI NGO along with village council

Work: With this initiative we aim to educate and train farmers in nearby communities by acting as a resource and demonstration centre for sharing good practices among farmers. The volunteers are required to assist us in following areas: • daily maintenance of farm and make natural/organic sprays, pesticide and produce chemical free products. • Actively assist our team to realise our dream to be self sufficient by producing majority of fruits, vegetable that we consume. • Introduce or reinforce good farming practices and grow off season and low water consuming vegetable. • Assist in installing a low cost hydroponics system at campus.

Accomodation and food: Food is provided. Local, fresh meals are made and served. The volunteers are expected to contribute in kitchen. A private or shared bedroom and shared bath are provided in one of the residential houses, our volunteer house or at the farm.

Location: BandhPatta

Location and Leisure: Ruchi campus which is located near Bandh village. It is 30 km from Kalka town and 60 km from Chandigarh city. The area offers a unique opportunity to live with nature in a peaceful environment. During leisure time, discover vibrant rural life, visit nearby places of attraction like old Sikh and Hindu temples, Kasauli hill station. A visit to Shimla, the state capital, will offer an opportunity to see high Himalayan Mountains and British architecture.

Airport: DEL

Train/Bus station: Kalka

Requirements: Knowledge of farming and creativity on farming practices; ability to educate on growing off season vegetable or dry cropping

Kalka

Language: eng

Extra Fee: 420 EUR

Himachal Pradesh is a mountainous area where the economy is pre-dominantly agriculture based. However, due to shortage of water and small terraces on sloppy land the agriculture is unsustainable and farm output is not sufficient keeping in mind economic value it gets. Also due to steep terrain and small terraces automated machines have limited usage here. As a result we fear food security problem in the future as many people are losing interest in agriculture. In order to sustain interest of people not only in agriculture but to enhance their farm production through natural faming, we give high importance to this project. At our campus, we have already demonstrated successfully making and uses of various form of natural composting, Kitchen Gardening, Agroforestry, floriculture, off season vegetables, orchard development here. At present we are preparing to install hydroponics system at our campus for demonstration, training and self sufficiency. In due course we would like to serve as demonstration centre for farmers.