The Chucot Shamma Agricultural Teaching Center dispenses training to farmers in winter and gives them seeds at subsidized prices before the start of the summer season, in May. However, the hothouses cannot be supplied with water twelve months of the year and the farmers cannot procure what they need for their crops.
The Nantes region association Juley Enfants du Ladakh, which backs the development of the schools of the villages of Diskit (400 students) and Sumor (120 students), in the Nubra valley, in Ladakh, sponsors more than a hundred children and takes charge of the investments proposed by the schools: purchase of educational materials, a school bus, refurbishing and construction of buildings and installation of solar facilities (lighting and water pumps). This has led it to initiate a project to install a submersible solar pump with a borehole and to mount a reservoir in an area where it can supply water to all the greenhouses of the center, thus enabling the farmers to benefit from the seeds and young saplings without interruption.
