Events

Date & Venue		Event	Goal	Participants
24th - 26th, November, 2008,		Regional Rice Farmer Breeders' meet	Farmers, Scientist and NGO's discussed regional wise rice sustainability and developments. 3 days workshop was organised in collobration with Thanal and Living Farms
13th December, 2008, Simply organic, Bangalore		Organic group certification training	A day training programme was organised for organic farmers in collaboration with Jaivik Krushik Society, Lalgabh, B'lore	Farmers, certification agencies, JKS and Sahaja team
28th December, 2008, Holenarasipura		Desi Batha Utsava	Paddy Field Day organised by Vasundhare, an NGO focusing on sustainable livelihood of the marginalised sections	Department of Agriculture, local politicians, Farmer scientist from different regions, farmers and Sahaja team
24th September 2008, UTC, Bangalore		Organic Sellers Meet		Almost all the outlet representatives of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, volunteers and Department members
24th & 25th August 2008, Horticulture Department, Hulimavu		'Kitchen Garden Day' Celebration	Importance and techinique of home gardening, plants which helps us in our daily life and nutrition management guidelines were explained to the participants	Department persons, Mr. Hithalamani, Ms. Lalitha, gardners.
26th August 2008, Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT), Bangalore		a lecture Programme on 'The Science and Politics of Genetic Engineering'		Mr. Michael K. Hansen, Ph.D. Senior Staff Scientist Policy and Advocacy Division, publisher of Consumer Reports. Mr. Devinder Sharma, a distinguished writer, thinker and researcher. Dr. A Rajanna, President IAT, Environmentalist Nagesh Hegade, Bharati Patel, Dr. K.N. Ganeshiah, G.N. Mohan, journalist, ecologist, farmers and NGO representatives.

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