Cultivation of safe-to-eat vegetables in large tracts of land in the State to ensure the availability of home-grown veggies for Onam has begun under the aegis of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The State-level inauguration of the farming initiative under the aegis of the Samyojitha Krishi Campaign Committee was held at Kanjikuzhy in Alappuzha on Thursday. CPI(M) leader M. Swaraj, party Alappuzha district secretary R. Nazar, P.P. Chitharanjan, MLA, and others planted vegetable seedlings on a land close to the Steel Industrials Kerala Limited.
In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) district committee said the initiative would help produce almost all types of veggies free of chemical pesticides for Onam. Party units from the top to the local level would become part of the vegetable farming campaign.
