Fake Organic products

Hello organic food consumers,

  Off late I am seeing lot of fake organic products coming into the shops at a very low price from so called organic farmers and some shop owners are selling at organic products price thus earning a huge profit and also encouraging these fraudsters. The fake organic products are cold pressed oil, snacks,  karrupatti i.e. palm candy, jaggery and dairy products these products or not branded and are sold in very low quality packing without any license from food authorities.


  What is the big fuzz?
  Cold pressed groundnut, sesame, sunflower,and coconut oil are good for health but are you sure the source is organic, there are lot of such cold pressed oil units sprung in TamilNadu and started to have have in the market without any license and the producer's name.

  Snacks are sold at a very low cottage industry price without any MRP tag, nutritional value or sometimes even the producer name and address is not mentioned.

  Palm candy and jaggery source should be from organic fields and not from inorganic fields, the roots absorb the inorganic content from the soil, so how could this be organic. Jaggery is produced from sugarcane and calcium is added to the syrup and then poured in molds to clear the residue, is the sugarcane produced organically, if not how come organic.

  Un-branded Dairy products packed in plain covers(not food grade), are in the market especially raw cow milk with lot of adulteration like mixing of urea to give density, detergent powder to give froth, sodium bicarbonate to make milk to be good for a longer duration and adding buffalo milk  and in worst scenario they even re pack standardized  pasteurized  milk to mask the chemical residues in the synthetic milk.  These milk are brought from various farmers in village at Rs.18 to 20 per liter and sold at Rs.60 to 70 per liter.


  Consumers, if you have any problem regarding this you can ask the shop owner from where it has come, whether they have checked it ( get the details about the source) or ask them that you need to check on that producer (if you are not satisfied with their answer), I can tell you the answer will be negative, then you can judge yourself or the answer will be something provocative or diplomatic, then again it means problem. There are very very few organic producers in oil seeds especially in sesame and sunflower in Tamilnadu. In dairy only three or four organic dairy farmers are available in Tamil nadu (upto 900 lts per day), near Chennai only two who are capable of producing 500 lts/day, and they have branded their products with trade mark.


  Consumers PLEASE BE CAREFUL IT IS YOUR MONEY AND HEALTH.

Hai,

Off late one can see some news coming in about Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MGNRES) popularly know as 100 days work. It seems Rural people have earned a lot, but it is not the case originally, only few villagers have earned but the correct position is different. People can go to nearby village to get the right picture, that too the villages near towns or cities. Actual scheme is designed to give farm labors support during summer when agriculture is not done. But the scheme is used the other way by giving jobs to farm labors for entire year (one member of the family 100 days if a family has 4 members x 100). Sometimes even same people get jobs with a break of 100 days.i.e a cycle after they have completed 100 days work. The quality of job is not good and the amount (tax paid by working class) is wasted. Thus farmers are losing interest for want of labors. Agriculture is the only sector where we don`t get labors. This is the only sector where unskilled labors can get wages without much risk for life. This type of mishandling of the scheme is done in most of the villages.

This in turn starts the chain reaction of rise in price, instability in government, Recession,poverty robbery and all other types of illegal activities. It is good to raise the grade in rural areas but not by bringing down farmers.

Will tax payers make a note of it and request the government to reschedule this scheme.

Only time can tell.

Halo,

This is going to be my first blog and my first post. I am planning to help people who is conscious about health and environment with passion for animals. I like to dedicate my first post to the farmers who are in the brink of their life...
I would like youngsters to show passion with agriculture and help the farmers by marketing their products. By doing this youngsters can avoid unnecessary habits. Become a volunteer and help a farmer in your free time. This will be a good exercise and also a good act rendered to your feeder.

My website www.ayyanfarms.com is under revamping will be launched in the near future. 

In this blog people can ask ideas or doubts regarding organic farming and animal health apart from human health. In future we will discuss about the farmers nature about farming (organic and inorganic) and help volunteers to turn psychologist to help farmers to change their mind on selling their agricultural lands.

This is going to be a small seed, I hope everyone will join to form a human chain to stop our farmers from committing suicide. 

Please avoid questions which harm others feelings.