Our publications document our work in different aspects of sustainable agriculture. About 200,000 copies of these publications have been disseminated in India and 37 other countries.
Nurtured 23 farmer producer companies across 9 districts in Tamil Nadu. These FPCs work closely with more than 20,000 farmers to realize the vision of sustainable livelihoods and profitable agriculture.
A set of centres named āAgricultural Machineries Facilitation Centres (AMFCs)ā has been set up in Thiruvannamalai, Kancheepuram and Nagapattinam districts.
Set up enterprises which carry out allied activities like biopesticides production, dairy production, millet production, value-added product production
Set up and supported 650 farmers institutions (50% of which are women groups), including Self-help groups, farmer clubs,Ā joint liability groups and common livelihood groups
Spread over eight districts, about 110,000 farming families have benefited from our activities and 10,000 ha of land has been converted to sustainable agriculture
As part of Namma Nellu initiative of CIKS, Ms. Divya visited Vedharanyam, Sirkazhi and Mayiladuthurai in Nagapattinam district to interact with farmers cultivating traditional rice varieties under guidance from CIKS.
We participated in the Organic World Congress organized at New Delhi on 8th and 9th November 2017. Mr. K. Subramanian, Ms. Subhashini Sridhar and Ms. Divya Kasturi Rangan from CIKS and Mr. Jayapal from Valanadu Sustainable Agriculture Producer Company attended the congress.
CIKS has been granted a project for providing a series of training programmes for Farmer Producer Collectives and building their capacities during the year January ā December 2018. The project is being funded by FWWB, Ahmedabad. The project consists of three different components, namely, Trainersā Training Programmes (TTP) in which a group of trainers will…
We organized training programmes for eight Producer Organization Promoting Institutions (POPI) at Chennai and for another nine POPIs at Vitheeshwaran Koil. The training covered topics such as āEssentials of Contracts for Producer Companies, Procedure for application of Matching Equity Grant under SFAC, Compliances for Producer Companies, Introduction to Statement of Accounts, Revenue Sources for Producer…
