History:
    The mission dry land farming area was identified by the director, way back in early 1996.  It was then put forward to the agricultural ministry to see how best it could be developed.  This delayed for some time up to March 1997 when work on the area started.  Full development came into being beginning early 1998.  By May 1998, the first crops were harvested from the dry land farm.   The garden has several sections which include:
                        a.   drip irrigation
                        b.   intensive vegetable farming
                        c.   composting section
                        d.   orchard
                        e.   vegetable seed nurseries

Objectives:
    1.  To act as a demonstration ground to people living the locality and people visiting the mission.
    2.  To provide some basic food requirements for the mission.
    3.  To act as a training ground on some specific topics like integrated pest management; 
         organic farming; drip irrigation, etc.
    4.  To help people understand that even degraded land can be brought into full production if managed properly.
    5.  To act as a training ground on contour farming.
    6.  To act as a learning ground on fruit tree management by constructing mini catchments made out of rocks.

Soil Fertility Management
    Since we are working in harmony with nature, we mostly stress the use of natural fertilizers like chicken manure, legumes, compost, and goat manure.  To make manure tea we put chicken manure in a gunny bag and put the sack in a drum of water.  Then we let it stand for three weeks.  After diluting at the rate of 5 liters manure tea to 15 liters of water, it is fed to the plants through the bucket drip system.  This is fed to different crops at different time periods:
                i.   leafy vegetables
                ii. fruit vegetables (tomatoes) -- once a fortnight
                iii. root crops (onions, etc.) once a month