Sikar Farmer Achieves Record Onion Yield with Organic Farming, Ditching Chemicals

• Vikas Moond, a farmer from Sikar, Rajasthan, has successfully cultivated 'Red Quality' onions organically on 20 bighas of land.
• He completely abandoned chemical fertilizers like DAP and urea, relying solely on cow dung manure for the past three years.
• The organic method resulted in record-sized onions, mostly weighing 150-200 grams, with a deep red color and sweeter taste.
• Organic onions have a longer shelf life, attracting traders directly to the farm, who pay higher prices and save the farmer transportation costs.
• Vikas achieves an excellent yield of 55-60 quintals per hectare by resting the soil and deep plowing after applying cow dung.

Why It Matters: A Sikar farmer's shift to organic farming yielded record-sized, high-demand onions, proving its economic viability.