Curchorem Locals Embrace Kitchen Farming And Home Horticulture Farming

Curchorem, Goa: A unique drive to promote horticulture and home or garden cultivation of fruits and veggies and other farming activity by Goemcho Goenkar in Curchorem, aims for a 30 percent increase in overall farming activity and farm produce in the area over the next 12 months.

Fruits and vegetables which can be easily grown in the soil available in Curchorem will be given priority over other food or farm items which cannot grow in the naturally available soil.

An initial survey indicated that the outskirts of the town may also be suitable for poultry farming, which needs to be explored.

Goemcho Goenkar will provide the home farmers, kitchen gardeners and horticulture farmers with organic fertilizer, saplings, seeds and other farming tools, implements and expertise in the form of training sessions, to motivate more and more people to take up home farming in Curchorem.

We want to popularize the concept of organic kitchen gardening or kitchen farming and expect hundreds of families to take up kitchen gardening and growing fruits and vegetables in their backyards.

Organic and fresh are two sacred words that not only appeal to fitness freaks, but also to every health-conscious person. Many people splurge on imported, advertised ‘natural’ products, when some of the best sources of a healthy diet can be grown and produced in one’s backyard, says Albert Fernandes who is associated with the project.

Fatima Figueiredo, sister of globally-celebrated Goan artist Mario Miranda, has been farming since 2012 on her ancestral land in Nuvem that was lying barren for decades. She is one of the glowing examples of locals who have taken to farming in a big way in South Goa and her success story is an inspiration to many.

At least 5 new mass kitchen farming initiatives will be launched in Curchorem and Nuvem in the new year 2021.

Where is Curchorem?

Curchorem also known as Kudchade is a town and municipal council in the South Goa district of Goa, and is part of Quepem taluka. Curchorem and Sanvordem are twin towns on either side of the Zuari River.

Geography

The confluence of Uguem and Guleli rivers at Sanguem or Sangam is known as the Zuari river. It runs north west up to Sanvordem. Further it runs up to the west till Kushawati River and joins at Xelvona. Then again it changes direction to the north till it reaches Panchwadi near Shiroda and further flows up to Rachol. It again flows up to the north to Borim, near Ponda and further north-west up to Racaim, Durbhat and finally into the Arabian Sea near Mormugao.