In a tale of achieving self-sufficiency and providing healthy food, teachers and students of a primary school jointly are growing various vegetable crops in a kitchen garden on the premises of the school at Peddapet village in Dandepalli mandal and that too without applying harmful pesticides and fertilizers. Significantly, the vegetables are used for mid-day meals at the school.
“The school’s infrastructure was developed under the Mana Ooru-Mana Badi scheme recently. With the advent of a compound wall, bore well, over head tanks, etc, created through the initiative, we started raising tomato, green chilli, beans, brinjal, ridged gourd, leafy vegetables on an open space in a corner of the institution this year,”