News, Event & Updates

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    From Seeds to Success: Women Farmers Thrive with Natural Farming

    • From Seeds to Success: Women Farmers Thrive with Natural Farming

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    Small Farmers Are Also Planting Fruit Orchards

    • Small Farmers Are Also Planting Fruit Orchards

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    Bundelkhand's water heritage being saved

    • Bundelkhand's water heritage being saved

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    Multilayer farming helps farmers boost income through efficient nutrient use.

    • Multilayer farming helps farmers boost income through efficient nutrient use.

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    Vegetables at the Frontline of the Fight Against Malnutrition

    • Vegetables at the Frontline of the Fight Against Malnutrition

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    SRIJAN Raises Awareness on Government Schemes for Women Farmers on Farmers' Day

    • SRIJAN Raises Awareness on Government Schemes for Women Farmers on Farmers' Day

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    Promoting Natural Weed Control for Sustainable Farming

    • Promoting Natural Weed Control for Sustainable Farming

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    Advanced Guava Farming Transforms Livelihoods, Inspires Farmers Across Bundelkhand

    • Advanced Guava Farming Transforms Livelihoods, Inspires Farmers Across Bundelkhand

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    HDFC’s Holistic Rural Development Program Launched with District Collector as Chief Guest

    • HDFC’s Holistic Rural Development Program Launched with District Collector as Chief Guest

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    Story from the BRC constructed in a Gaushala (गौशाला) by the Chhatarpur team in Rajnagar block

    • Story from the BRC constructed in a Gaushala (गौशाला) by the Chhatarpur team in Rajnagar block

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    Jatara farmers earning up to â‚ą80,000 per bigha through successful Amrood cultivation.

    • Jatara farmers earning up to â‚ą80,000 per bigha through successful Amrood cultivation.

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    SRIJAN celebrated its 25 years of existence

    • SRIJAN celebrated its 25 years of existence , marked by resilience, innovation, and meaningful impact. Since our inception in 2000, SRIJAN has been dedicated to empowering marginal farmer families, women, and other under served communities through sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management , climate smart agriculture , strengthening women's collectives and market integration.

    Over the two-day celebration, we had the privilege of hearing from distinguished speakers who shared inspiring experiences, valuable insights, and clear directions on achieving inclusive and sustainable development. Their messages reinforced our commitment to building self-reliant communities and a prosperous rural India.

    As we move forward, SRIJAN is also strengthening its focus on climate resilience and nature based solutions, ensuring that rural communities are equipped to adapt to climate change while embracing sustainable livelihood models for a better future.

    As we reflect on this journey, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to our donors, partners,board of trustees , team members, and the communities we serve, who have been co-travelers in this incredible mission. Their unwavering support has been instrumental in shaping the progress we have achieved.

    Here’s to many more years of collaboration, innovation, and impact. Together, we build a self-reliant and thriving rural India.

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    Community-led intervention with support from SRIJAN has resulted in doubling the business turnover for Women’s Producer Groups in 12 villages of Shivpuri district, MP
    • SRIJANcso supported Women's Producer Groups in 12 villages of Shivpuri district, MadhyaPradesh, to begin procurement of groundnuts and sell them at a higher price. After selling 52 MT of groundnuts last year, the community planned to nearly double their business turnover with 100 MT this year. Community-led intervention benefits in a variety of ways, including doorstep #procurement, fair #pricing, on-time payment, and other fare MarketPractices that result in a 12 to15 percent increase in income due to collective procurement & MarketLinkages.
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    Participants pledged to practise chemical-free farming during a workshop organised by SRIJAN on occasion of World Soil Day on 5th December
    • On 5 December, on the occasion of WorldSoilDay, SRIJANcso organized a workshop in Pali, Rajasthan where they shared their experience of organic and natural farming. Team leaders spoke about the importance of natural farming in favourable #soil conditions and its future prospects. Participants pledged to practise chemical-free farming and encourage others to do the same.
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    Celebrating SRIJAN’s 21st Foundation Day and 72nd Republic Day

    • This 72nd Republic Day SRIJAN celebrates 21 years of partnerships, striving towards self-reliant communities for a sustained future. Enabling access to Clean Water, Climate Smart Agriculture, healthier livestock, community-based institutions & sustainable livelihoods.

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    Visit of Shivpuri DM to Shivpuri Project Location
    • DM Shri Akshay Kumar Singh visited Barodi, Mamunikhurd, Manpura, Daviyajagan and Deori villages to understand different thematic interventions and Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives undertaken by SRIJAN with the communities He visited nano orchard models, met community members to understand the value chain of different produce, witnessed SRIJAN’s Govt. liaison work, visited various Natural Resource Management structures The DM also participated in a cross-learning training session of Women Producer Groups and encouraged participants for their productivity-enhancing Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives.
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    Celebrating 20 years of SRIJAN – 20 years of self-reliance
    • This 3 day event is organised at Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh to celebrate 20 years of SRIJAN. Day 1 is SAFARNAMA, Day 2 is SAATHNAMA and Day 3 is GANTANTRA to JANTANTRA
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    Visit of Ms. R. Vimla, CEO-MSRLM to Custard Apple Processing Centre at Kari village in Bheed district, Maharastra
    • Ms. R Vimla, CEO-MSRLM, visited custard apple pulp processing unit in Kari village of Dharur block in Beed district. She appreciated the efforts of VO members of Adarsh Mahila Gram Sangh, block and district teams of UMED along with SRIJAN team for its technical support in successful initiation of this livelihood initiative. This processing unit provides daily employment to more than 30 women of Kari village and raw fruits are procured from more than 200 forest dwelling households of 6 VLCCs(Village Level Collection Centers) at 50% higher prices(@ Rs. 12 per kg) in comparison to local traders. She also encouraged the team to replicate this intervention in other potential villages of Marathwada region.
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    Visit of Lars Bech (Founder-Neutral Apparel) to our project site at Sausar block
    • Lars Bech (Founder, Neutral Apparel, Copenhagen, Denmark) along with his son Frederick visited Organic Cotton Project at Sausar block of Chhindwara district. He interacted with farmers on organic farming and collective marketing. Sumit Roy and A Shridhar from WWF were also part of the visit. M.D Taori and Indrachand Umiya from Mahalaxmi Ginning Unit also interacted with the delegates. The visit was coordinated by Preetam Pradhan from SRIJAN.
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    SRIJAN – spearheading Custard Apple processing
    • Non-Timber Forest Produces (NTFPs) play an important role in supporting rural livelihoods and food security. It’s established that a significant number of rural, tribal and forest dependent communities derive a significant part of their income from NTFPs. One of the most abundant NTFP in the country is Custard Apple. It is found abundantly in many states of India. It is highly perishable and in absence of appropriate value chain intervention, value addition, infrastructure and market availability, its potential and real benefits weren’t fully realized by aggregators. SRIJAN, being one of the pioneers in developing and implementing large scale innovative and sustainable livelihood models for rural poor families, has started to work on addressing challenges of custard apple value chain in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan nearly 6 year back in 2013. This livelihood model is in-built with practical and easy solutions, thus it emerged as a successful and replicable model. This year, SRIJAN is spearheading Custard Apple processing in 4 states through Community Institutions. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana. Lab-borne innovative pulp-freezing technology matching custard apple aggregation in tribal regions of the country is spreading fast to many areas. Farmer producer organisations promoted by SRIJAN, other #CSOs and #StateRuralLivelihoodMissions are procuring custard apples through unique fair-price mechanisms, process fruits with industry standards and market the frozen pulp to India's best ice-cream companies and food caterers. As a partner, SRIJAN is providing Tecno-managerial support to SERP, Telangana in 3 processing units in Narayanapet district and Umed-Maharashtra-SRLM in 3 districts viz, Nandurbar, Gadchiroli and Beed. SRIJAN has helped more than 25,000 tribal families through this unique livelihood model around Non Timber Forest Produces like Custard Apple, Jamun, Palash Gum, Chironji (Buchanaia Lanza, Cuddapah Almond, Almondette) and Amchoor (Dry Mango). Through a small window of 45 days, women from tribal areas are able to procure more than 200 MT of Custard Apple fruits and process them into 40 MT high quality pulp.The initiative promotes sustainable livelihood of tribal and rural communities and also take care of conservation of forest and ecological balance. Please contact Shri. Mohd. Zahid (mohdzahid@srijanindia.org) who looks after the entire operation at SRIJAN if you are interested.
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    A step towards fulfilling Gandhi ji’s dream of self-reliant villages!
    • On Gandhi Jayanti, 145 Gram Sabhas were organized across 8 locations of SRIJAN. 4,815 women from 914 Self-Help Groups participated in these Gram Sabhas where 4,254 individual work proposals were submitted.
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    Mr. Ved Arya (Founder SRIJAN), delivering talk on “Social Entrepreneurship among students” at NIT Raipur on 11th September, 2019
    • Mr. Ved Arya's,(Founder - SRIJAN) delivering talk on "Social Entrepreneurship among students" at NIT Raipur on 11th September, 2019.
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    National Consultation over Strategic Partnership of Convening and Convincing for Strengthening FPOs
    • In collaboration with Civic Engagement Alliance (CEA), National Association of Farmer Producer Organisations (NAFPO) and Self-Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action (SRIJAN), a two-day consultation was held on 12th and 13th September to identify constraints and key building blocks of an effective support to build a strong ecosystem for FPOs to thrive. The discussion focussed on deliberating sources to access finance for FPOs and bringing out best practices on one platform to develop policy recommendations for State guidelines in Assam. Participants of the consultation included representatives from various mainstream financial institutions, promoting organisations, FPO leaders along with experts and practitioners.
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    Organic Cotton Farmers sharing their experiences at Lakme Fashion Week, Mumbai on 22nd August 2019
    • Sangita Kumre and Ankush Patil, organic cotton farmers from Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh, shared their experiences on SRIJAN's organic cotton project in LAKME Fashion Week event at Mumbai on 22nd August 2019
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    Team Building workshop at Jaipur from 5th Aug to 6th Aug
    • A two day workshop on Team Building was held on 5th and 6th August at Jaipur to understand the teams and identify the gaps within team to help it grow as high performing team.
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    Workshop on “Revival of Traditional Water Bodies in the Bundelkhand region, MP”. Chaired by Ms. Gauri Singh (ACS, Department of Panchayat and Rural Development), and presided by Mr. R. Parasuram (Director General, AIGGPA).
    • With an objective to amplify the impact through a strong collaboration with Government and facilitative partnership with the district administrations and the Panchayati Raj Institutions a workshop was organized by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis (AIGGPA), Bhopal on 19th July at Orchha. This one day event tried to explore the avenues for scaling up the initiatives of the Tank restoration. The workshop was chaired by Ms Gauri Singh (ACS, Department of Panchayat and Rural Development), and was presided by Mr. R. Parasuram (Director General AIGGPA). Mr. A.K Sharma (Divisional commissioner, Sagar), Ms. Reshma Anand (CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation), Mr. Mohit Bundas (District Collector, Chhatarpur). Mr. Akshay Singh (District Collector, Niwari), Mr. Jacob John (General Manager Programmes, Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives), CEOs, Zila Panchayat of all districts falling into Sagar Division participated and shared their words of wisdom. This one-day workshop deliberated upon and paved a way forward for inter - departmental coordination to undertake the restoration of the traditional water bodies at a scale. Representatives of CSOs and the CSR agencies also participated in the workshop. The workshop also highlighted the important aspects of water governance and its management, strengthening of Tank Management Committees, water budgeting with active community engagement, developing community cadre which will work both on supply and demand side management. Catchment area treatment and making community resilient about climate change, putting drought proofing system and processes at place and resetting cropping system of rain fed areas, were some of the important issues that were discussed.
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    Visit of Mr. Ajit Kesari, IAS (Principal Secretary – Agriculture & Cooperatives, Govt. of MP) and Mr. Pradeep Neekhra (MD – MP State Cooperative Bank) to Sausar Block, Chhindwara District, MP

    • Mr. Ajit Kesari, IAS, Principal Secretary- Agriculture & Cooperatives, Govt. of MP and Mr.Pradeep Neekhra, MD of MP State Cooperative Bank along with other district officials visited Khapa and Jobni Village of Sausar block of Chhindwara district  where SRIJAN is implementing Organic Cotton Farming since last 3 years.

    The team visited Organic Cotton Nursery which is meant to reduce contamination of BT seeds and Bio Input Centre for promotion of natural inputs. During this visit, Mr. Kesari shared that government will support organic growers and interacted with COFE BOD members about their business experiences so far and suggested them to take help of Government programmes to increase the business of organic produces.  

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    Visit of Annupur District Collector Mr. Chandramohan Thakur, IAS to Kotma, Annupur District, MP
    • Anuppur District Collector Mr. Chandramohan Thakur, IAS visited the Fish Cage Culture Unit (24 cage unit) and Nano Orchard plots in Chohri village of Kotma block, Anuppur Madhya Pradesh. He interacted with Pavni Adiwasi Matsya Palan Samuh and congratulated them on their unique work of fish culture. While understanding the income generation prospects of fish farming by using cage culture method, SHG members shared that they will be able to produce approx 2.5 tonnes of fish in a year by adopting cage culture which will give them an earning of approx 2.5 lac in one-year. Mr Thakur suggested to develop a system of seed production so that the SHG is able to market fish throughout the year. Mr Thakur was very happy to see the scenic beauty of the location and proposed a plan to develop it into a tourist spot with facilities of sitting,boating, and refreshment which will give some new income opportunities to SHG families. He also visited the nano orchard plots developed by SRIJAN and was impressed with the intensive plantation of Pomegranate, Mango and Guava with inter-cropping of tomato. He was also impressed with the drip system installed in the orchard to conserve and efficient use of water for the family and reducing their drudgery Mr. Thakur congratulated SRIJAN for their work with the resource poor community and developing a model which is helping the community and giving them a good source of earning he also shared that convergence with relevant government schemes will be done and the district administration will provide all support.
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    Visit of Mrs. Gauri Singh, IAS (ACS, Rural Development Department, MP) and Mr. Ajay Sharma (CEO, MPSRLM) to Chhindwara, MP

    • Mrs. Gouri Singh (ACS, Rural Development Department, MP) and Mr. Ajay Sharma (CEO, MPSRLM) along with other district team members visited SRIJAN's project sites of Mohkhed block, Chhindwara and interacted with Horticulture beneficiaries and SHG members. At Temni, they also had a discussion with federation and members of COFE (a producer company with 1800 members working on custard apple value chain, organic cotton).

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