| Sahaja Samruddha or Bountiful Nature, a brainchild of a group of organic farmers was born mainly out of concern to protect our mother earth. Sahaja Samrudha started as a farmer initiated to exchange ideas, seeds and share knowledge on sustainable agriculture. The formation of Sahaja Samrudha was the culmination of their individual efforts into a more exciting and powerful force to make sustainable agriculture a way of life of the farming community. Sahaja Samruddha has spread out its network on publications, workshops & trainings and on marketing in order to encourage more farmers towards organic farming.
Savayava Siri -
GM free food shop, Market linkage for organically grown
foods Savaya Siri is formulating organic outlets to offer
fresh, nutritious and healthy foods to consumers at an affordable
cost. Savayava Siri has enhanced the capabilities of these
outlets on strategies of procurement, marketing, quality maintenance,
eco friendly packaging, distribution and most importantly
clientele management.
| Akkadi - means traditional cropping practice of growing multiple crops. Akkadi, a brand name that has emerged to create a platform for production and marketing of native seeds that are grown organically with concern for protection and preserving our legacy. Around 300 variety seeds of ragi, paddy, minor millets, vegetables, pulses and so on are conserved in the network area, all over Karnataka. | |
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Save
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Samrudha in coordination with Thanal, Kerala and
CREATE, Tamilnadu has initated Save Our Rice Campaign
in Karnataka. The campaign has undertaken activities
of Reviving rice culture, Onfarm Conservation of
rice diverity, Participatory Crop Improvement, Popularisation
of Organic rice and Formation of Rice Clubs.
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Group
Certification
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group certification programme has been undertaken
for the first time in Karnataka, certified by IMO
control Private Limited (India) a Swiss based group.
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Gcube-Green
Gardeners Group
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group which gives practical training and solutions
to urbanites on organic gardening of fruits, vegetables,
medicinal and ornamental plants in their houses,
terraces, etc.,
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Rediscovering
Millet Diversity

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Samrudha, works with a vision of reintroducing millets
like Finger millet, Little millet, Foxtail millet,
Pearl Millet, Kodo millet and Proso millet. Millets
are the food security to the small and marginal
farmers in rain fed areas.
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Reviving
Deepwater Paddy Varieties
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The Varada river belt is endowed with agro climatic
conditions suitable for the cultivation of a wide
range of rice varieties. Sahaja Samrudha has developed
farmer-breeding practices for purification, multiplication
and documentation of of these extinct varieties.
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Reviving
Medicinal Rice Varieties of Karnataka
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Sahaja
Samrudha has identified and documented the medicinal
rice diversity of Karnataka and has combed the entire
state, where inter-specific diversity is significant.
The data collection included ecological and cultural
context of the rice varieties.
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Conservation
of
Vegetable Diversity
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Sahaja
Samrudha has initiated mapping and conservation
of vegetable diversity mainly to revive our mega
traditional bhigan, tomatoes, beans, greens,
chilly, pumpkin and gourds diversity and the
culture associated with it.
Rare fruit trees of Mango, Chikku, Pappaya, Lime,
Chakkota and Bananna are revived and conserved onfarm.
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