Sustainable Farming

When you limit your energy usage, you lower your impact on the environment.

In today’s world, energy is not only the future – it drives everything in the present. As a global society, we generate and use more energy than ever before, and the demand for energy is continually increasing.

One of the ways to deal with the constantly expanding need for energy and the issues it brings is to focus on energy conservation. The only two ways to conserve energy is either to use less of it or produce more.

At Swani Spice, we decide to equally focus on both. By investing into windmills that product renewable energy for the past 15 years, an average generation of 2.5 million units annually has kept us in the positive for renewable energy generation after deducting the consumption of energy at all our facilities and office.

Water Conservation is an integral part of India’s cultural history. Since the availability of water resources on earth are limited and unevenly distributed, the issue of water conservation became not just about saving water but also about having sufficient clean water at any given time and place to meet our needs. Several efforts have been made in India and other parts of the world wherever water shortage has become a vital issue. Conservation of water depends on wide use of available resources to us. Such wide use, without a doubt, begins at home and community.

At Swani Spice, Conservation of existing water tables, Rainwater Harvesting and Drip Irrigation programs gained momentum, importance and focus on our environmentally friendly initiatives.

Various products from our Agri programs like Chilli and Turmeric are done using Drip Irrigation Technique while others like Cumin, Fennel, Psyllium, Coriander and Fenugreek are on Sprinkler Irrigation.

The move from Flood Irrigation to Sprinkler Irrigation has helped us preserve close to 50% of water that was otherwise being consumed; while the move to Drip Irrigation is another 25% saving of water resources.

With increasing climate change, imbalance in crop-life, plant life is threatened, plant protection continues to play a significant role in

The major areas of plant protection are:

• Promotion of Integrated Pest Management.
• Availability of Safe and Quality Pesticide for sustaining crop protection from pests and diseases.
• Streamlining the quarantine measures for accelerating the introduction of new high yielding crop varieties.
• Eliminating the chances of entry of exotic pests.

We have several programs and schemes introduced to ensure plant protection such as:

• Use of Pests and Disease Resistant Varieties of Crop.
• Crop Rotation.
• Use of Traps and Sticky Notes to attract pests.
• Distribution of Biofriendly Pesticides to farmers that are a part of our AGRI Programs.
• Awareness and Guidance Activities to Farmers.
• Farm Visits to identify pests and diseases and accordingly directing measures about the same amongst the same.

We have been carrying out soil testing independently since it is the soul of our project for a healthier and better crop yield.

Based on the soil analysis reports, several discoveries can lead to recalibrations in the enrichment program. One such solution is to re-balance the nutrients and NPK ratios of the soil with the use of specific ingredients that are tailor-made by our AGRI Team.

The program of re-balancing and enrichment of soil plays a vital role in encouraging bio-diversity, preventing soil erosion and substantial drop in pollution levels. It is one of the major influencing factors involved in improving the future of farming, quality and quantity of yield and most importantly, sustainability of the farmer; all of which are directly connected to his livelihood. The age-old concept of bio-degrading waste and its conversion to Mulching, which is eventually being used as Farmyard Manure (FYM) is also a part of one of the methods introduced by us for the soil Re-enrichment Program.

These programs are aimed at ensuring nitrogen usage from natural elements are absorbed in the soil and not released in the atmosphere, contributing to the care for the environment.

Currently there are 29 products that are a part of our Sustainable Farming yielding about 12,500 mt of produce annually and we are always committed to expand and consolidate the program with every passing year.

Our vision is to increase the number of products being sustainably farmed along with an increase in production per spice.

By the year 2025, we at Swani Spice aim to have between 15000 mts of Sustainably Farmed and Certified Produce.

Our New Initiative Aaira – A breath of Life  is an idea introduced to the world on July 1, 2022, on the occasion of Van Mahotsav also known as the Forest Festival which is an annual tree-planting festival celebrated in India in July.  With Aaira, we hope to plant 1000 and 10,000 trees across all our Backward Integration Programs from the fields that supply us with our Sustainable and Organic spices.

Aaira laid its roots in Basmat, Nanded where a team from Swani Spice & The Flavour Trail alongside the guardians of mother nature planted more than 150 saplings in an effort to give back to the environment some of the resources, we borrowed from it. Who better to restore nature to its rightful place than the nourishers themselves?

It was a green clean day, and we know that this first tiny step will soon be our stepping stone to more significant milestones.