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HyFarm Paathshala: Field-Based Farm School for Potato Growers

22 September 20251 min read
AGRICULTURE & RURALHyFarm Paathshala:Field-Based FarmSchool for PotatoGrowers22 September 2025safalsetu.com

Why in the news

Ahmedabad’s HyFarm started Paathshala, taking farm education from classrooms to fields and mixing traditional and modern methods.

Key facts

  • Pilot: 30+ farmers and families in North Gujarat.
  • Training: soil testing, seed treatment, balanced nutrition, precision irrigation, planting, loss-cutting harvest methods.

Significance

  • Graduates act as modern-farming ambassadors and improve incomes and food quality.
  • Supports India’s role in global potato markets and sustainable, resource-efficient farming.

Exam angle

  • Initiative: Paathshala by HyFarm; crop: potato.

Test yourself

1. Which crop was the focus of farmers trained in HyFarm's Paathshala pilot?

The trained farmers are seen as pioneers in potato cultivation.

2. HyFarm's Paathshala pilot involved farmers from which part of Gujarat?

Over 30 farmers and families in North Gujarat took part.

3. Paathshala is a vertical of which group?

HyFarm, which runs Paathshala, is a vertical of the HyFun Group.

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