“What ever you do to your web, you do to yourself”

Is this true?

Let’s begin a thousand miles journey from our door step.

YOU CAN DO THIS.

Good morning !Imran where are

you going?

Good morning Pradeep! I’m going to the

market to buy vegetables.

Ah! You are buying vegetables from the

market? But we have vegetables in

our garden.Ah! You have a

garden!

Yes we grow everything we can and it reduces the

wastage.

Is it ? How a home garden can do such

a thing?

here are some facts which will help you to

understand how a home garden reduces

the wastage.

With the minimum of effect we can reduces

the followings.

When transporting

In shops

Wastage under your nose.

I have some records of

waste in shops.

Crop Purchases from farmers

Sold amount

Stock

( left out )

Wasted

( In transport & staled )

70 Kgs 30 Kgs 12 Kgs 2 Kgs

42 Kgs 25 Kgs 6 Kgs 3 Kgs

30 Kgs 10 Kgs 9 Kgs 3 Kgs

You may have experienced

more than this Imran.

Yes…. But what if we

have a refrigerator?

Do you think refrigerators reduce the wastage?

Look…..

Actually, it costs an extra amount of electricity.

If you have vegetable plots in your garden you can

save much.

But………. What can I grow in our

garden.

Come, let’s go to our garden and see what

you can do for a change.

I think now you understood how

you can reduce the waste.

Thank you very much!

Pradeep.

LET’S MAKE A HOME GARDEN & REDUCE THE

WASTAGE.

Let’s begin to reduce the wastage from our kitchen and make it happen all over the country.

Always look beyond what you see.

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