Ekalavya Foundation has been working towards making agriculture profitable, environmentally sustainable by promoting organic agriculture. Sendriya Mitra is an ambitious project of Ekalavya Foundation to promote organic farming thereby offsetting the ill effects of chemical farming. Under the flagship program, Ekalavya Foundation strives to promote non- chemical (organic) farming, which results in regeneration of soil health by reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and produce healthy farm produce and boost farmer’s net income and encourage collective marketing through formation of Farmers’ Collectives.

Important Features:

• Organic clusters with local farmers as members
• Monthly meetings
• Special trainings and exposure visits of farmers to model farms
• Certification of organic process under PGS system
• Training of farmers in the villages
• Training of women activists at cluster headquarters.
• Training to Cluster Resource Persons, who in turn will act as advisers at village level.
• Training on preparation of organic fertilizers and bio pesticides

Total 3100 Acres from 105 villages are under Organic Farming through Sendriya Mitra Project.