Seeds Of Sustainability — Promoting Improved Farming Practices

Livelihood Empowerment through Grassroots Innovation: Improved farming techniques, like mixed cropping, natural composting, and seed preservation, are empowering farmers at the grassroots. By blending traditional knowledge with innovative, low-cost tools and sustainable agricultural practices, there is bio-diversity and improved yields. (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Championing Women Farmers and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs): Women FPOs are being instrumental in building supply chain in regional markets, procuring quality seeds, introducing high value crops and empowering women farmers. (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Ecological Restoration through Regenerative Practices: It is helping in keeping the soil healthy and growing crops, which are free from any kind of chemical inputs. It makes the soil resilient to the impact of weather vagaries and climate change leading to sustainable livelihoods for farmers. (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Empowering Local Communities: Promoting these practices automatically uplifts rural livelihoods by creating stable income opportunities, reducing dependency on external inputs, strengthens food sovereignty, and encourages community-led stewardship of natural resources. (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Youth Skilling through Traditional-Agriculture-Tech Integration: Blending digital tools with traditional farming, rural youth are gaining modern skills through programs emerging as green innovators rooted in indigenous practices. (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Climate Resilience: Indigenous farming systems, coupled with modern practices is the way forward in building climate resilience, making farms more adaptable to erratic weather patterns and promoting sustainable farming (Image Source: Special Arrangement)

Inputs By: Saroj Kumar Mahapatra, Executive Director, PRADAN(Image Source: Canva)