Rainy season at Remei India

Cotton grows beautifully in an organic cotton-based farming system

Remei India has been involved in organic cotton farming since 1991 and in recent years has started to develop a cotton-based  system that promotes multiple cropping in the agro-ecological zone, favouring other new crops like mooringa and ashwagantha in addition to cotton. The aim is to strengthen the cotton economy as a whole and to spread the farmers’ income from cotton alone over several pillars.

Even before the onset of the rainy season, which started at the end of June, the farmers cooperating with Remei India prepare their land for sowing, most of which is supplied by efficient drip irrigation systems. Just 45 days after sowing, the cotton plants grow to a height of up to one metre. In the intercropping phase, the weeds between the plants are removed and catch crops, e.g. green grams, can be sown.

Remei India’s cultivation area is in the Nimar region in the west-central part of the state of Madhya Pradesh in the pristine Narmada Valley south of the Vindhya Mountains. Nimar is famous for cotton, it has been grown there for centuries.

The region receives its rainfall from the southwest monsoon, which begins in the Indian Ocean, continues to the Arabian Sea and reaches Nimar from Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra via the Western Ghats. The southwest monsoon brings an average of 800 to 1000 mm of rainfall and is very welcome in the hot and dry summers, as the monsoon brings prosperity to agriculture, and thus social prosperity to the region.
 
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