ORGANIC

SIKKIM

A PRESENTATION FROM
VARSHA ON ORGANIC SIKKIM
❖ SINCE THE STATE HAS BEEN DECLARED AS ORGANIC STATE IN
2003, USE OF SYNTHETIC FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES HAVE BEEN
DISCOURAGED
• on-farm and off-farm inputs such as:

• Vermi-
compost
• Enriched
• Liming of
Rural
the acidic soil
compost

• Integrated
• Azolla nutrient
management

• Green • Bio-
manure fertilizers
❑ VERMICOMPOST UNIT
❑ PACKAGING OF VERMI COMPOST FOR SALE
 Bio-fertilizers being used to
supplement crops:

➢ Azolla,
➢ Blue green algae,
➢ rhizobium,
➢ Azotobactor,
➢ Azospirillium,
➢ Phosphate solubilizing bacteria

Soil testing and issuing of soil health card to all the farmers.

mobile soil testing laboratory vehicle equipped with latest

instruments are operational.
Azolla Pond
Improved Rural Compost-
cum-Urine Pit
 SOIL ACIDITY AND FERTILITY
STATUS OF SIKKIM

➢ Soils under different reaction classes:

 ORGANIC CARBON STATUS

➢ ORGANIC CARBON STATUS:

 AVAILABLE NITROGEN
STATUS OF SIKKIM

➢ NITROGEN STATUS :
 AVAILABLE PHOSPHORUS
STATUS OF SIKKIM

➢ PHOSPHORUS STATUS :
 AVAILABLE IRON STATUS OF
SIKKIM

➢ IRON STATUS :
 AVAILABLE ZINC STATUS OF
SIKKIM

➢ ZINC STATUS :
 AVAILABLE MANGANESE
STATUS OF SIKKIM

➢ MANGANESE STATUS :
 AVAILABLE COPPER STATUS
OF SIKKIM

➢ COPPER STATUS :
❑ The above data shows that in Sikkim nearly
73% of cultivated area is under strongly to
extremely acidic in soil reaction.

❑ 91% cultivated area under low to medium in

Nitrogen content.

❑ However Organic carbon , Phosphorous and

Potassium content are medium to high.

❑ The deficient micro-nutrients are Zinc,

copper and manganese.
INM Demonstration in
Organic Maize field
INM in Rice
 SOIL REACTION (Ph) AND ITS
RECLAMATION
❑ Due to high rainfall in the state which causes downward
leaching of bases resulting in soil acidity.

❑ The state has strongly to extremely acidic soil with pH ranging

from 5.5 to < 4.5 in about 73% cultivated area.

❑ The acidic soil needs to be reclaimed with:

➢ liming materials like dolomite for improving the structure,

➢ uptake of plant nutrient and
➢ moisture retention capacity.

❑ Hence liming @ 1.5 to 2 tons per hectare is needed to

neutralize the soil acidity of the state.
 SOIL REACTION (Ph) AND ITS
RECLAMATION
❑ Locally available plant species are used to
prepare concoctions for using as bio-pesticides in
addition to the use of bio-control agents and other
Integrated Pest Management tools along with
conservation of natural enemies through non-use of
chemicals and crop rotation.
 IPM strategy
❑ Non-use of synthetic pesticides has led to
conservation of Natural Enemies. Augmentation is done through
innundative release of Trichogramma.

❑ For Integrated Disease Management, Trichoderma

is used extensively in addition to restricted use of the copper
compounds.

❑Neem products are also popular in addition to use of cow

urine and other herbal extracts.
Model Organic Input Production
Demonstration Farm
Rice cultivation in Bench Terraces
CHEMISTRY ⚗
PROJECT
XI-A (S.K.V GOKULPURI)