Enabavi, the very ‘1st Organic Village’ in India

After Punukula (Khammam), another village which took the challenge of leaving behind the traces of chemical usage and genetically modified crops was “Enabavi”. An inspiration and a successful story of how the second largest pesticide usage district’s one village adopted biological pest control techniques without depending on pesticides or synthetic toxins.

A story by ‘Down To Earth’ magazine of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Made it _Enabavi Cover Story on DTE

In 2006, Enabavi, Warangal District, Telangana, was declared as the first ‘Organic Village’ across the country.

You can read more on many of the articles found online:

https://www.ndtv.com/telangana-news/enabavi-telanganas-first-organic-village-is-leading-the-way-in-natural-farming-2070095

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/organic-cultivation-learning-from-the-enabavi-example/article5045359.ece

https://www.thebetterindia.com/178669/telangana-organic-village-farmer-suicides-inspiring-india/

https://scroll.in/article/862482/by-ditching-chemicals-an-arid-village-in-telangana-turned-lush-green