Indigenous paddy storehouse

May 24

With the addition of the typical Marai, and with better understanding of our crop cycle every year, we are doing much better harvest management. We are processing the main harvest of paddy ( as we are experimenting with many varieties and quantities ) right after we take them off the ground and primarily store them in the storehouse. This ensures fresh produces for ourselves and for the consumers throughout the year. We are now storing the excess so that we can process them based on demand. On one hand this helps our planning, at the same time consumers remain happier as our urban consumers do not have big storage for their consumables, they expect natural farmers to cater to them as they demand.

Anindita Dasgupta

Founder of Heal Thy Earth, a Natural Integrated Farm

Anindita Dasgupta has spent the majority of her career in the consulting industry advising a breadth of clients from India and abroad on technology and process management. In 2018, Anindita set up a 5-acre natural integrated farm in Birbhum in rural Bengal with the intent of exposing locals to good agricultural and eco-friendly livelihood generation practices.

Through her endeavour, Anindita seeks to promote the conservative practices and lifestyles of indigenous farmers, and reduce their reliance on unsustainable means of food production and livelihood generation. Instead, drawing from her exposure to contemporary corporate discourses on sustainability, she attempts to empower farmers to embrace their traditional slow-but-steady cultivation practices and regain confidence in spontaneous, regenerative farming based lifestyles that have been used by indigenous communities to sustain themselves for centuries.

Indigenous paddy storehouse

Low technology rain water harvesting

No chemical manuring and pest management