About Us
Sungold Organic Farm
Sungold Organic is a family-owned business. We have practicing organic agriculture since 2007. The six-acre working Tyaba Farm is located at Deh Kakar, Bin Qasim Town, District Malir. You can find us on Google Earth at this page. The Farm is located about 40kms from Karachi city center. We reside at the farm so that we can manage our farm-based business more effectively. Our core mission is to supply fresh organically raised vegetables and poultry (broilers) directly to our customers.
We are committed to sustainable and eco friendly agricultural practices. We also support social, cultural and academic activities in this area. Because of our given focus on organic production, we are very dedicated to cleaning up the Food Supply Chain at all levels of production and distribution.
Guests are welcome to the Farm!
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Why Organic?
Organic agriculture describes a method of farming that sustains the health of people, animals and live stock as well as soil and the ecosystems. It does so by crop rotation, conservation of scarce resources such as water and energy, by not using genetically modified organisms, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers.
About Poultry Products
We are raising boilers using organic methods, starting with one-day old chicks. Feed consists of natural grains from market and organic greens, herbs and vegetables from the farm.
The chicken are raised in well aired pens which are maintained in hygiene conditions. Inoculation is avoided if required chickens are provided homeopathic medication. Eyedrops are given only for the New Castle Disease. The rest of it is organic and natural medicines and materials for cure of their ailments.
The birds are not force fed as a result their growth cycle goes beyond the conventional five and a half weeks achieved by factory farms. The natural process of growth along with natural and organic feed makes the meat tasty and certainly a very healthy option to the conventionally raised factory farm produced boilers.
About Vegetable Products
The farming practices at Sungold have been clearly outlined above. We get most of the open pollination seeds from certified organic suppliers based in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia. Some of the seeds are produced on our Farm. We are using some hybrid seeds as well, however, we continue to make efforts to convert to a 100% organic seed based production farm.
About The Farm
As part of sustainable agricultural practice, Tyaba Farms does not use any chemicals in the form of fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, growth hormones and enhancers. Before 2007, the farm was untilled for a period exceeding five years. Therefore, any chemicals that may have been in the soil from previous conventional agricultural practices have easily been leached by Nature.
We produce our own compost from barnyard waste obtained from adjoining farms. The period of composting is about 9 months. The Farm is shifting to the use of chicken droppings from our boiler operations which will provide us with a cleaner “raw material” for the composting operation. The birds are only fed natural and organic grains and vegetation from the Farm itself. We also use green compost to provide substance to the soil and to rebuild the organic matter in it. We do not use any herbicide as we have farm labor that continue to manually hoe the vegetable beds.
When needed, we produce and apply our own pesticide and insecticide by fermenting using the heat from sun’s rays a combination of tobacco, “akh” plant leaves, stems and its purple/pink blossoms (the stems of “akh” emit a white fluid when snapped), neem berries and leaves, red chilies, garlic and a mild soft soap solution. The soap is used to create a thin film on the pest after it is sprayed so that the effect of the pesticide can materialize.
The method is not a perfect solution for the tough tropical bugs that we have in Malir! However, the spray stuns most of the pests and insects for varying periods. During this period, we hope and pray that Nature’s other creepy crawlies make a midnight meal out of the bad guys. We are thus able to maintain the Natures’ Cycle instead of truncating it by harmful chemical medicine.
We are an equal opportunity employer offering a modest social and economic safety net for our colleagues who work with us on the farm and the distribution system.