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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.

Save our Rice Campaign

  Sahaja 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

  Organic 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

  A 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

  Sahaja 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

  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

  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

  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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