It was in 2018 that 44 families from Mohali and Chandigarh came together to do community farming on two acre land. After hiring four workers, we started organic farming.” He added: “Our focus was to grow vegetables which can thus be distributed to all the families. We focused on vegetable farming and grew seasonal vegetables in January 2019 after making the land ready for organic farming. Subodh Verma and his neighbour Dr Rajesh Sharma do organic farming on 1.5 acres of land. LudhianaIn Ludhiana’s Issewal village, however, group farming is being done in one acre land by 20 families on land taken from a local industrialist Maneet Dewan.

Source: Indian Express February 20, 2020 00:11 UTC