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Farmer-led popularization and dissemination of new rice varieties in Telangana help close the seed gap

Published on Monday, 29 January 2024 22:42 Category: Articles

About our work in collaboration with the IRRI India (the International Rice Research Institute) towards the promotion of new varieties.

The article on Rice Today, an international magazine by the IRRI.

Farmer performing a crop-cutting experiment to get a reliable, cost-effective estimate of crop yields and other information on a rice variety for comparison.

About our work in collaboration with the IRRI India (the International Rice Research Institute) towards the promotion of new varieties. The article on Rice Today, an international magazine by the IRRI.

Enabavi stories – 1st Organic Village in India in 2006

Published on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:37 Category: Articles, News, Reports

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...

Punukula Stories – 1st Pesticide-Free Village in India in 2005

Published on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:18 Category: Articles, News, Reports

When the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), Hyderabad began its journey in 2004, its main focus was to support small and marginal farmers with knowledge of ecological and economically sustainable farming practices. This led to helping them to transition from conventional methods to organic. In 2005, Punukula, a village...

Odisha Millet Mission (OMM): Shaping the Sustainable Future of OMM

Published on Monday, 13 November 2023 13:22 Category: Uncategorized

A summary report on Odisha Millet Mission (OMM) as Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MIOP). These are the findings from the International Workshop on “Shaping the Sustainable Future of OMM” by Prof. Sonal Chaudhary (University of York), Dr Raymond Obayi (University of Manchester), and Dr GV Ramanjaneyulu (Centre for Sustainable Agriculture)....

An Award Winning Story on “How Women Farmers in Andhra Pradesh helped in Natural Farming Transition”

Published on Thursday, 2 November 2023 15:03 Category: Awards, Events

Women farmers from Andhra Pradesh helping in the transition to Natural Farming. In the context of India gradually transforming towards natural farming, India Spend and CSA brought out a compilation of stories from across the country of people who shifted to organic/natural farming and looking into their experiences, what worked...

Seed ball campaign-2023 with TV9

Published on Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:06 Category: Events

CSA and TV9 have come with again 2023 edition of Seed ball campaign. You can also join the campaign by organising a campaign in your school, colony, office or vi

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Refresher Training on ‘Agroadvisory Services and Business Development with FPOs’

Published on Wednesday, 12 July 2023 20:02 Category: Events

MANAGE and CSA have organised a three day refresher training on ‘Agroadvisory Services and Business Development with FPOs’ for Agriclinics and Agri Business Centres (ACABC) enterpreneurs from 26-28th June, 2023.

Natural Farming: Building a vibrant ecosystem

Published on Thursday, 29 June 2023 19:31 Category: Reports

India is now witnessing a transformation towards Natural Farming. Some of the key challenges which prompted this transition are the growing threat from Climate Change, environmental pollution, degradation of natural resources and growing demand for sustainably grown safer food. While the transitions are driven by civil society organisations, government...

CSA and MANAGE sign MoU

Published on Tuesday, 7 March 2023 12:58 Category: News

On 6th March, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and MANAGE have signed an MoU to work together in promotion of Natural Farming, FPOs and Extension Systems. We will be jointly developing courses and offering at MANAGE and Krishna Sudha Academy for Agroecology

Board of Trustees Meeting

Published on Friday, 28 October 2022 21:23 Category: Events

On 27th October, 2022 the Annual Board of Trustees meeting was organised at the Head office, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. All the board members attended the meeting, discussed and reviewed the ongoing work and plans for next year. The request of Dr. MS Chari, the Managing Trustee of CSA,...

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