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We have organized over 10,000 farmers into 730 farmer SHGs which are federated into 9 cooperatives
We are the first Small Producer Organization involved in cotton and certified by Fair Trade International in India
We have established elaborate and comprehensive supply chain with ginning, spinning, garmenting units, brands to aggregate and market
We are providing technical and financial support to enable the NREGA Consortium with 7 partner NGOs to build viable and sustainable agricultural program in the project area
We are implementing comprehensive Watershed program in the 3100 hectares benefitting 1100 tribal households in collaboration with Indo-German Watershed Program, NABARD
We have facilitated the establishment of over500 farm ponds in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in convergence with NREGS and Watershed Program and ensured plantation of over
250,000 fruit, biomass and agro-forestry plants. We have established through farmers over 2000compost pits and have been anchoring the soil fertility sub group of Revitalizing Rain fed Agriculture (RRA) Network to taken up pilots for action research
to be fed into formulation of national policies
We are playing a pivotal role in different sector building organizations, in the field of sustainable agriculture and ethical marketing, by representing
boards of Network of Asian Producers (NAP), Made-By (UK), Made-By(Europe), Cotton Advisory Committee, Fair Trade International (Germany), Non-Pesticide
Movement in India (NPMI), Revitalizing Rain fed Network( India)
We have established 3 Child Resource Centers benefitting 120 children and 4 bridge schools to mainstream 95 tribal children into regular education in Andhra Pradesh. We work with over 30 schools covering 2950 children to improve the quality of education in Odisha.
We have supported the establishment of one new primary school in collaboration with cooperative in Maharashtra
We have provided scholarships to over 150 children for higher education (+2 onwards) annually, with specific emphasis on girl
children from the remote southern west Odisha We have played an important role in a nation-wide mobilization
‘Kissan Swaraj Yatra’ drawing fresh attention to the continuing agricultural
crisis in India, and calling for a comprehensive new path for Indian
agriculture – that will provide livelihood and food security for small farmers,
keep our soils alive and our food and water poison-free
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