Monthly Progress Report

(MPR 1 )
Experiential learning on (AGR 410)

ORGANIC FARMING

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE

DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS.) IN AGRICULTURE

Submitted by

Name: Sarthak Khugshal

Registration Number: 12018417

Section: H2E03

Supervisor Name

Dr. Rehan

School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University,

Phagwara-144401, Punjab, India

2024
INTRODUCTION OF UNIT :-

This Programme engages students in critical thinking, problem

solving and decision making in contexts that are personally relevant
to them. This approach to learning also involves making
opportunities for debriefing and consolidation of ideas and skills
through feedback, reflection, and the application of the ideas and
skills to new situations. It is the process of learning through
experience, and is more specifically defined as “learning through
reflection on doing”. Hands-on learning or training can be a form of
experimental learning but does not necessarily involves students
reflecting on their comparatively passive role.

Objectives of ELP :-

1. The learners are willing to be actively involved in the

experience .

2. The learners are able to reflect on the experience .

3. The learners posses and use analytics skills to conceptualize the
experience .

4. The learner possess decision making and problem sloving skills

in order to use the new ideas gained from the experience the
elements the elements of the experiential learning .

5. To develop guidelines for teaching through experiential

approaches .
6. To relate experiential learning to education for sustainable
futures .

Organic field

Objective of Organic Farming :-

• To provide food of high nutritional quality in sufficient quantity.

• To work with natural systems rather than dominating them.
• To encourage and enhance the biological cycles within farming system
involving micro-organisms, soil flora and fauna, plants and animals.
• To maintain and increase the long term fertility of soils.
• To avoid all forms of pollution that may result form agricultural
techniques.
• To maintain the genetic diversity of the agriculture system.
• To consider the wider and ecological impact of the farming system.
WEEK 1 :-

SERIAL ACTIVITY DONE DATE SUPERVISOR

NO REMARKS
1 Introduction class, objective of organic 10/01/24
farming & ELP
2 Weeding in organic field
11/01/24
3 Weeding in the beet root field & cleaning the
surrounding area of the field 12/01/24

Weeding in organic field

After weeding
 Cleaning the surrounding area of field

WEEK 2 :-

SERIAL ACTIVITY DONE DATE SUPERVISOR

NO REMARKS
1 Production of Pea & Carrot is less , So we removed 15/01/24
them with the help of tractor and Planted some
other different vegetable crops .
2 Our teachers discussed about different type of 16/01/24
formulation , we also make the compost pit of 2*2*1
meter & we also prepared beds of 5*4 meter with
the help of tractor .
3 We transplanted the 1000 onion seedlings which are 19/01/24
5-6 week old , we transplanted with the our hand &
watered the seedlings with the help of water-can
Removed the pea and carrot production
 Making compost pit

Making beds with help of tractor

 Preparing beds for transplanting

Transplanting onion seedlings in prepared beds with

spacing 7.5cm×15 cm (plant to plant and row to row
WEEK 3 :-
SERIAL NO. ACTIVITY DONE DATE SUPERVISOR
REMARKS
1 We had transplanted remaining 1500 onion 22/01/24
seedlings &water them with the help of water
can .
2 We had the weeding in the beet root and we 23/01/24
also had made some more beds .
3 We went to polyhouse for nursery raising of 24/01/24
some of our crop like musk melon , okra .
4 We had watered our onion & beetroot 25/01/24
seedlings & we also had sown some seedlings
in the the field ex. Bitter gord , okra etc.

Transplanting remaining onion seedlings

Watering the beds

Making new beds

Filling trays with coco peat and vermicompost
Filling polybags with media
Sowing seeds in seed Tray
Putting polybags and seed tray inside polyhouse
Watering onion and beetroot field
Sowing of seeds in field
 WEEK - 4

SERIAL NO. ACTIVITY DONE DATE SUPERVISOR

REMARKS
1 We had made compost pit . 29/01/24

2 We had transplanted the Brinjal seedling in 30/01/24

the field which are 5-6 week old .
3 Weeding in the organic field 31/01/24

4 Learned about the different varities of onion 01/02/24

& brinjal seedling .
5 We had made another compost pit . 02/02/2024
Digging compost pits
Transplanting brinjal seedlings