Kerala Agricultural Developement Society (KADS) is approved by National Centre for Organic Farming (NCOF) , Ministry, New Delhi. Kads is an Association of nearly 4000 farmers in Kerala. They are producing pepper, cinnamon, clove cocoa, ginger, turmeric, nutmeg etc. And avoiding middlemen for marketing. So they are getting reasonable price for their products. Now these farmers are in organic process of cultivation.
Now the products are under organic status Conventional 1 & Conventional 2
The products will be fully organic by April, 2009.
The total Availability of Products is as follows:
Conventional C1 Conventional C2 Total
Pepper 151 tonnes 203 tonne 354 tonne
Arecanut 87 tonnes 252 tonne 339 tonne
Coffee 33 tonnes 59 tonne 92 tonne
Cocoa 166 tonnes 242 tonne 408 tonne
Nutmeg 15 tonnes 28 tonne 43 tonne
Coconut 140 tonne 167 tonne 307 tonne
Vanila 7 tonne 6 tonne 13 tonne
Clove 2 tonne 3 tonne 5 tonne
Cardomom 6 tonne 4 tonne 10 tonne
Total 607 tonne 964 tonne 1571 tonne
The products which are produced from their farm are directly marketed by the farmers. A website is developed for this purpose WWW. Kadsindia. Org.