Mumbai: To provide relief and work to distressed farmers during the ongoing lockdown period, actress Juhi Chawla has invited landless farmers to farm at her Wada farmland on the outskirts of Mumbai.
As per reports, Juhi has a family farmland on the outskirts of Mumbai where she has employed experts to do organic farming.
Seeing the plight of the farmers, the actress has now opened it for them, inviting them to grow rice during the lockdown period.
Speaking about her initiative, Juhi said, “Since we’re in a lockdown, I’ve decided to give our land to landless farmers to farm on. We’re letting them farm rice this season and in return take a small portion of the produce for themselves.”
“It’s not a new practice. It’s just going back to the past to the way farming was done decades ago, but then isn’t that the wiser way? Our farmers know the land, soil, wind and air far better than we city people ever will from our text book knowledge,” she added.
Juhi has asked her staff to ensure that good quality of rice is sown and only organic farming methods are used on her farm.
“This is a win-win situation for everyone, for our farmers and for us. We work smarter this way and not harder. This lockdown has put good sense into my head,” said the actress.
