{"id":64131,"date":"2026-01-13T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=64131"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:47:32","slug":"organic-village-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-01-2026\/organic-village-rajasthan","title":{"rendered":"First Fully Organic Village of Rajasthan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Economy\/Environment&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bamanwas Kankar Panchayat, Rajasthan, has become the <strong>first fully organic village body in the state, covering seven hamlets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Organic farming&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Organic farming is a sustainable agricultural system that avoids synthetic inputs and relies on natural, on-farm resources for nutrient management and eco-friendly methods for pest and disease control.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It promotes safe food production, lowers production costs, improves soil health, and helps mitigate climate change by reducing dependence on chemical fertilizers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Advantages of organic farming<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It helps to maintain environmental health by reducing the level of pollution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It reduces human and animal health hazards by reducing the level of residues in the product.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It helps in keeping agricultural production at a sustainable level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It reduces the cost of agricultural production and also improves soil health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It ensures optimum utilization of natural resources for short-term benefit and helps in conserving them for future generation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It not only saves energy for both animal and machine, but also reduces risk of crop failure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It improves the soil physical properties such as granulation, good tilth, good aeration, easy root penetration and improves water-holding capacity and reduces erosion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It improves the soil\u2019s chemical properties such as supply and retention of soil nutrients, reduces nutrient loss into water bodies and environment and promotes favourable chemical reactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Governments steps&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Government of India has been promoting Organic farming in the country through dedicated schemes namely <strong>Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana(PKVY) <\/strong>and <strong>Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region(MOVCDNER) <\/strong>since 2015-16 to cater to the needs of domestic and export markets respectively.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Centre of Organic Farming<\/strong> is a nodal organization for promotion of organic farming under Integrated Nutrient Management(INM) Division, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/rajasthan\/in-a-first-rajasthan-panchayat-gets-certified-for-going-fully-organic\/article70502987.ece#:~:text=By%20taking%20decisive%20steps%20to,be%20certified%20as%20fully%20organic.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Bamanwas Kankar Panchayat, Rajasthan, has become the first fully organic village body in the state, covering seven hamlets.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Organic farming\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Organic farming is a sustainable agricultural system that avoids synthetic inputs and relies on natural, on-farm resources for nutrient management and eco-friendly methods for pest and disease control.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">It promotes safe food production, lowers production costs, improves soil health, and helps mitigate climate change by reducing dependence on chemical fertilizers.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-01-2026\/organic-village-rajasthan\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64133,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64131\/revisions\/64133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}