Agriculture
Sustainable farming for sustaining IndiaNagalakshmi switched to organic farming and grows millets. AID is helping install drip irrigation in her field.
Every day forty farmers commit suicide in India,
and thousands are driven to debt.
This is how AID addresses agrarian crisis
By providing relief to farmers in crisis: AID helps families of farmers who have committed suicide and farmers facing natural disasters.
By arresting soil depletion: Farmers get training to move away from chemical farming towards ecologically sustainable and economically viable techniques.
Through farmer friendly policies: Advocacy to make governments work for farmer-friendly policies.
By creating public awareness: Through public programs and consumer-producer linkages, citizens connect issues of farmers, food systems and environment.
15000
Farmers commit suicide every year
Rs 2
What the farmer gets from your Rs 100 meal
$100,000
Needed for AID's Agri projects