He is a post-graduate in Commerce, and as a crusader for organic farming he won the ‘National Virtual Academy Fellowship’ from the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation.
Meet Addala Gopalakrishna of Amalapuram who motivated more than 4,000 farmers to set up vermi-compost units to protect their soil for a long period.
For the past two decades, his dedication to organic farming has paid rich dividends, and he has proved that agriculture is profitable like other field.
His ‘Rythumitra Rural Technology Park’ has worked wonders in 16 mandals of Konaseema (Amalapuram Revenue Division) by making agriculture profitable without using fertilizers and pesticides and getting good yield with low investment. Mr. Gopalakrishna says farmers spend a fortune on fertilizers and pesticides, but in return they get less yield. “Organic farming will enhance the health of the soil and will multiply the yield,” he adds.
Now, he has requested the government to release Rs. 1 crore through the Agriculture Department to distribute bio-fertilizers to farmers to boost organic farming. “After experiencing benefits, farmers would start buying bio-fertilizers,” he says.
According to Gopalakrishna, organic farming will not give fruit on the first crop completely, but farmer could get cent percent return from the third crop.
He says farmer get 33 percent yield in the first crop, 78 percent yield in the second crop and 100 percent yield in the third crop. He maintains that his endeavour will now be to cut down the gap between production cost and Minimum Support Price.
Addala Gopalakrishna has made more than 4,000 farmers set up vermi-compost units to protect their soil for a long period
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