Sustainability

The major environmental challenges faced by Indian agriculture include, how to conserve our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity and how to make agriculture sustainable? Farming is sensitive to short term and long term climate changes. Both of these kinds of changes affect farming directly (due to change in temperature, precipitation and/or CO2 levels) and indirectly (through changes in soil, distribution and frequency of infestation by pests, insects, diseases or weeds). These environmental issues have already affected many crops in India. To handle these challenges, attention needs to be paid to soil, irrigation water, nutrients, crops and their management practices, to sustain the productivity and to ensure food and environmental security to the country.

Dhanuka Agritech limited is working on these issues and spreading information amongst farmers. Dhanuka Agritech is regularly encouraging good agricultural practices such as use of modern technologies, optimum use of fertilizers and green manure according to soil test report for better soil health, crop insurance, use of hybrid seeds, judicious use of agrochemicals, saving water in agriculture through use of drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation technique etc. Dhanuka is also educating farmers not to burn crop residue in field.

Dhanuka Agritech Limited (DAL) has been involved in number of community welfare programs under its CSR initiatives to assist in the sustainable development of society. It strives to actively contribute to the social and economic development of the society in which it operates by laying special emphasis on promoting education, eradication of hunger, poverty and mal-nutrition, conservation of water, deployment of water for agriculture and human use. All projects are planned in a participatory manner with the local community by gauging their basic needs. Presently, DAL undertakes CSR activities that aims at improving the lives of the agricultural and rural community holistically. In the last financial year, Company’s development projects in Delhi, Rajasthan (Ratangarh, Udaipur and Jaipur), Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh (Mathura and Vrindavan) Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore) and other areas across India have benefitted farmers, senior citizens, children, differently abled people and rural community.