This is good news for homemakers willing to establish their homestead garden during this monsoon for growing fruits and vegetables for their regular consumption as the Department of Horticulture extends helping hand by providing the inputs with 50% subsidy.
The scheme, christened ‘Vetri Illaththarasi Veettu Thottam’ (Vetri Home-Makers’ Homestead Garden), aims at producing organically grown, chemical-free fruits and vegetables in the terrace of the houses by erecting shade nets. Apart from using these farm produces for their personal consumption, the growers can also sell it to their customers or share it with their neighbours and friends.
The aspiring women will get six types of certified vegetable seeds, fruit plants, six seed bags with coconut pith for growing the vegetables, 2 Kg of vermicompost, 400 grams of azospirillum bio fertilizer, 400 grams of phosphobacteria, 300 grams of trichoderma viride, 100 ml neem oil and a handbook detailing the finer details on establishing homestead garden and its maintenance.
Moreover, the seeds of greens, trays for growing greens, coconut pith, water sprayer and the handbook will also be given.
“We’ll provide this kits to aspiring women with 50% subsidy,” District Collector Ranjeet Singh said.
The Collector also said the Department of Horticulture, under its plan to expand the area of cultivation of horticultural crops in the district, has proposed to introduce inter-crops in coconut grove to augment the farmers’ income.
“We’ll provide them all technical inputs pertaining to inter-crop cultivation and pest management in coconut. Moreover, we’ve also proposed to encourage palmyra cultivation by distributing palmyra seeds and palmyra saplings to the farmers. A palmyra value-added products manufacturing unit is also to be established in the district,” Mr. Ranjeet Singh said.
Interested women and the farmers can approach the Assistant Directors of Horticulture near their area or apply through the Uzhavan App.
Published - October 23, 2026 04:33 pm IST