Focus Areas
Sustainable and climate resilient agriculture
To enable farmers to adapt to climate change and build resilience into agriculture and food production.
Improving Household Food and Nutrition
Establishing homestead gardens to provide green vegetables year round to add dietary diversity and improve household nutrition by
Reviving underutilized foods
Reviving wild, semi domesticated and underutilized foods to enhance the food basket and make available additional nutrition to the family
Collection, Characterization and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity
Collection, characterization and conservation of the genetic diversity of crop plants, especially rice, to increase seed choices and stabilize agriculture
Community-led Seed Production
Village communities are being trained to produce quality seed of crops of local importance, to ensure timely supply of quality seed
Income Generation Activities
SHGs and Farmer Clubs are provided training to produce value added products from locally available bioresources
Jalkund
Gene Campaign has been working for the last few years in about 80 villages in Kumaon/Uttarakhand