The document discusses the roles of various organizations in promoting organic farming in India and Karnataka. It outlines that NGOs, central and state governments, ICAR, KVKs, and other organizations conduct training programs, provide financial assistance and inputs, help with certification, and create market linkages to support farmers in adopting organic practices. The central and Karnataka state governments have also introduced various schemes to encourage organic farming.

1. UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ,RAICHUR
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, RAICHUR
PRESENTATION
ROLE OF NGO’S AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN PROMOTION
OF ORGANIC FARMING IN INDIA AND KARNATAKA
BY
C. VAISHNAVI
M.SC (AGRI)
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURA L EXTENSION
EDUCATION
ID.NO: PG20AGR12028

2. CONTENT OF PRESENTATION:
1. Organic farming introduction.
2. Challenges
3. Organizations promoting organic farming.
4. Roles of organizations.
5. NGO’s
6. Central and state governments role.
7. Central government schemes.
8. Schemes introduced by Karnataka Govt.
9. Other Organizations.
10. Conclusion.

3. • ORGANIC FARMING:
Organic farming is a system which avoids or
excludes the use of synthetic inputs such as ( fertilizers,
pesticides, hormones etc;) and to the maxium extent
feasible rely upon crop rotations, crop residues, animal
manures, off farm organic waste etc; ( USDA, 1980).

4. COMPONENTS OF ORGANIC FARMING

5. • Lack of proper knowledge about organic tools and practices
among farmers.
• Difficulties for ensuring continuous market for organic products.
• During the conversion period yield will be poor and there won’t
be any premium price for the products.
• High cost and difficulties for certification and inspection for the
organic products.
• The majority of the farmers are not aware of the ongoing schemes
introduced by the government and not availing the benefits.

6. • Problems regarding the availability of organic manures,
bio fertilizers etc;
• Lack of quality standards for biomanures and other inputs.
• Lack of adequate financial support from government for
the farmers practising organic farming .

7. ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTING ORGANIC
FARMING
• NGO’s
• Central and State Governments
• ICAR
• KVK’s
• NCOF
• KVIC’s
• IFOAM.

8. ROLES OF ORGANIZATIONS:
 They help in enhancing the acountabilitly and transparency of the
government programmes to the farmers.
 Conducting trainings and workshop’s in order to educate the
farmers and also to enhance the capacity building of the farmers.
 Helping the farmers to avail all the benefits provided by the
government to the organic growers.

9.  They also need to enlighten the farmers regarding the hazardous
effects of the usage of chemicals both for the soil and human
health.
 Providing the quality organic inputs for the farmers at reasonable
prices.

10.  Helping them in getting the certification of the organic produce
which brings in additional benefits to farmers.

11. NGO:
It is any non profit, voluntary citizens group which is
legally constituted, organized and operated on a local, national
or at the international level.
There are many NGO’s in India working at different
levels for the promotion of organic farming pratices for the
betterment of farming community. some of them are:
Sanjeevani

12. AGRICOS FARMING
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

13. CASE STUDY OF
It is a National level NGO
founded by in
The main objective of this NGO is to promote biodiversity
conservation, organic farming, farmers rights and seed saving
process.
They conducted trainings to the farmers all across the country
with the theme “ Food sovereignity and sustainable
agriculture.” over the past two decades and helped in setting
upof largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the

14. They have trained more than one million farmers to go for organic
farming and to maintain seeds of their own.
In 2001, the organization has also develolped “Bija Vidyapeeth” (
schoool of science) a center of excellence for “organic farming” on
its biodiversity conservation and organic farm in Doon valley of
Uttarakhand.
This school is serving small and marginal farmers both men and
women, scientists, students and researches across the globe.

15. IMPACT:
• The organization established 122 community seed banks in India
and encouraging more than a million farmers to convert to organic
farming.
• Till date through their training programmes 2 million acres of land
is converted to organic in total of 22 states and U.T’s.

16. • M.R.MORAKA GDC RURAL RESEARCH
FOUNDATION :
This was started in 1993 by Mukesh Gupta in
Nawalgarh region of Rajasthan. today it has become the
leading NGO carrying out a large programme spread over 15
states in the country covering 1 lakh farmers.
The foundation was the first to introduce organics across
Asia in 1995.

17. • ACTIVITIES.
It sponsored organic group certification authorised by government
certification agencies.
Provided them with technology support required to get the organic
farming started.
Frequent demonstrations and trainings, workshops are conducted
imparting the various nuances of Organic farming.
Certified small farmers with small outputs are made into groups and
helped them in exporting the organic products collectively which
increased their beneifts.

18. Regular congregations are held with the farmers by the experts.
Literatues in local dialects are distributed to the local farmers
regarding organic farming.
It also provides the partner farmers with coco peat, earthworms
for vermicompost and natural sustainable decomposing liquid.
 They also have linkages for procurement of inputs and good
marketing channels for the derived organic output.
It hosts Krishi Sammelan every year in the month of september
and Shekhawati organic food festival in february since last 20
years as a platform to eduacte farmers and to promote organic
farming to the possible extent.

19. IMPACTS:
The organization has achieved 100% organic conversion in
about 1 lakh acres of land and about of land is
under conversion.
 around 75000 farmers in Rajasthan alone partenered alone with
Moraka foundation for assisstance and collective marketing and
around 1000 new farmers every year are converting to organic
farming.
coming to India in total 2,50,000 farmers converted to organic
farming after attending the training programmes conducted by
it.

20. AVISHKAR:
It focusses mainly on
1. Self help groups.
2. Farmer clubs.
3. Vegetable growing associations.
4. Joint liability groups.
 Vegetable growing associations( VGA’s) are functioning well
with regular meetings and taking lead role in motivating fellow
farmers about organic vegetable cultivation.
Motivate the farmers to go for the application of biofertilizers
instead of going for chemicals.

21. They help the farmers in the preparation of FYM, compost,
jeevamruta etc;
Provides training and capacity building of the farmers on organic
farming.
• No.of farmers clubs formed -
• Farmers trained on sustainable agriculture - 386
and animal husbandary
• No. of farmers covered exposure visit to - 83
organic farming fields
• Farmers provided support under organic farming - 62

22. CENTRAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT’S:
ROLES:
 Targted, ambitious and well funded nation wide programmes to be
developed to drive the farmers change towards organic farming.
 Providing financial assistance to the organic farmers through
different schemes.
 Promotion of organic manures and biofertilizers instead of
chemical fertilizers.
 Agri-extension system to be strengthened and enabled to lead and
support the transition on ground.

23. • Availing adequate and quality inputs to the farmers through
different institutions.
• Making the process of certification of organic produce easy.
• Creating good market facilities for the organic growers.
• Providing premium price to the organic produce among others
would certainly motivate farmers towards organic farming.
• Conducting awarwness programmes.

24. CENTRAL SCHEMES:
 National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture ( NMSA)

 National Project on Organic Farming ( NPOF)

 National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertillity (
NPMSHF)


25. • PARAMPARAGAT KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA:
It was launched in 2015 as a subcomponent of Soil
Health Management(SHM) scheme under the National Mission of
Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA).
Promote organic farming among rural youth, farmers, consumers
and traders.
Disseminate latest technologies under organic farming.
Organize a minimum of one cluster demonstration in a village.
To reduce the use of chemical fertilizers for growing crops.

26. To make use of natural resources for agriculture.
To maintain fertility of the soil.
To check the dependency on fertilizers and chemicals to
improve agricultural yields.

27. RESULT:
As of february 2020,
1. No.of clusters formed - 29859 clusters
2. Farmers adopted organic farming - 1.49 million famers
3. Area converted to organic farming - 0.59 million ha.
Recently for promoting natural farming under PKVY
has been initiated to
encourage use of natural on farm inputs for chemical free farming.
It’s main objective is to cover 1.2 m.ha. in 5 years.
Under this initiative and have taken up 1
lakh and 0.8 lakh ha. respectively for promoting natural farming
Reddy AAmarendar ( 2017)

28. NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ORGANIC
PRODUCTION:
The ministry of industries and commerce through Agriculture
and Processed food products Export Development Authority (
APEDA) is implementing this programme from 2001.
OBJECTIVES:

30. • Because of all these schemes introduced by the central Govt. the
cultivable area under organic farming increased from 11.83 lakh.ha
in 2014 to 29.17 lakh.ha in 2020 due to focussed efforts of
government.
• Taking this success of organic initiatives into consideration a target
of 20 lakh.ha additional area coverage by 2024 is envisaged in the
visionary document of the central government.
Reddy AAmarendar (2017)

31. • SCHEMES INTRODUCED BY KARNATAKA
GOVERNMENT:
• State policy on organic farming
• Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)
• Savayava Bhagya Yojane ( SBY)

32. ORGANIC VILLAGE:
Under organic farming policy Govt. of Karnataka had
initiated a programme called Organic village during the year 2004-
05. with the involvement of NGO’s.
• Objective of this programme is to convert in each district
to model organic farm.

33. CASE STUDY :
S.NO OPERATING REGION ORGANIC FARMING RELATED ACTIVITIES
1. MYSORE PRODUCTION, CERTIFICATION
AND MARKETING
2. MANDYA AND
MYSORE
PRODUCTION, CERTIFICATION
AND MARKETING
3. MADKERI TRAINING PROGRAMMES
4. MYSORE TRAINING PROGRAMMES
5. MYSORE PRODUCTION, CERTIFICATION
AND MARKETING
SIDDRAJU V.G.

34. FUNCTIONING:
• NGO’s initiated the programme initially by sensitizing the people
about the concepts of organic farming through interactive sessions
and group dicussions.
• Conducted traininigs to the farmers regarding organic farming.
• Helped the farmers in
1.preparing compost, green manure, vermi compost, bio fertilizers
2. prevention of diseases in organic farming.
3. principles of soil and water conservation.
4. certification of organic farms.
5. marketing of their organic produce.

35. RESULTS:
Among the 1500 farmers who had been a part of this programme
about 1000 farmers converted to organic farming.
By the success of this programme the Govt. has decided to give
100 to 140 ha. in the select villages to NGO’s to convert it to
organic farm.

36. SAVAYAVA BHAGYA YOJANE:
It is one of the steps to promote organic agriculture in the state of
Karnataka, as per state policy on Organic farming 2004.
As much as 100 acres of farmland will be identified in Hobli for
demonstration purpose under the scheme.
The scheme will be implemented through various NGO’s which
will act as nodal agencies.
Each village selected under this scheme will receive 3.75 lakh
rupees from the government.

37. The govt. would help farmers in branding, packaging, marketing
and marketing their products. it also helps farmers to popularise
their brands in the urban market and would also help certify the
product as organic.
BENEFITS:
 Enhance soil fertility and productivity by increasing soil life and
also make the environment safe and pollution free
 Reduce the dependency on farmers for most of the inputs like
seeds, manures and plant protection materials by sourcing local
natural resources etc;

38. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
• ICAR took up the research programme on organic farming by
establishing Network Project on Organic Farming (NPOF) to study
some agronomic aspects of organic farming and develop pacakge
of practices in arable crops at 13 centers.
• Further 7 new centers were added under the project to cover seed
spices and tuber crops.
• In the Dharwad region of Karnataka it is working on 5 cropping
systems - 1. Groundnut - sorghum
2. Soybean - rainfed wheat
3. potato - chickpea

39. 4. Chilli+cotton - onion
5. Maize - Chickpea.
 APEDA is another nodal agency to promote the Indian organic
agriculture and its export oppurtunities.
 Some of its efforts towards promotion of organic exports include
attempts to collaborate with all the major organic importing
countries and expoting the certified organic products with fair
pricing.
 KVK’s are also promoting the organic farming among farmers by
extending all the information regarding inputs, farming practices,
marketing of the organic produce by utilizing various extension
methods.

40. CONCLUSION
Systematic phasing out of the use of agro chemicals and synthetic
fertilizers and gradual increase in the use of organic manures,
biofertilizers need to promoted.
More research projects for formulating organic farming practices
should be frames by ICAR and other agencies.
Linkages between Ministry of Agriculture, GoI, ICAR, SAU’s and
State Departments of Agriculture need to be strengthened more to
develop organic farming systems.
Incentives for the production of good quality organic manure, bio-
pesticides, bio-fertilizers may be considered

41. • Visits of farmers to model organic farms, workshops, seminars,
conferences and lectures to create awareness regarding the
important components of organic farming need to be promoted.
• Development of good marketing facilities for the organically
produced commodities.
• Financial assisstance should be given by the government through
different schemes for the organic farmers.