Niravkumar Patel Email & Phone Number

Description: BKK is the best well documented biodynamic farm in India. Biodynamics is a system andphilosophy of farming that recognises the soil and entire farm as a living organism. It is based on a seriesof lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, which have evolved into a form of farming that is now widelyaccepted and practised throughout the world, covering all forms of agriculture. There is a documentaryabout the farm available online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33M5UB-OUW0).Position: Farm manager.Activities:- Managing a 40 acre biodynamic farm;- Working with Head Farmer/Owner in mapping season, crop plan, seed purchase, schedule etc.;- Managing up to 70 workers at different farm activities: dairy (150 cows, yielding 200L milk/day), marketgarden, pasture management, annual grains and pulses production (wheat, millet, corn, chickpea, peas,beans, linseed, etc.), orchard, water system;- Accounting and Financial activities;- All practical, hands-on gardening/farming work - bed preparation, seeding, sowing, transplanting,weeding, harvesting, washing, packing etc.;- Managing organic shop on-site;

• Organic Farm Manager

  Bhaikaka Krushi Kendra

  Apr 2016 - Jan 2020 - Anand. Gujarat