PRADAN's Regenerative Agriculture Pathway
About the Solution
This solution by PRADAN focuses on the adoption and scaling of Regenerative Agriculture (RA) practices to ensure climate-resilient, economically viable, and ecologically sustainable farming systems. Starting as pilot plots with 27 families in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, the model demonstrated that RA can match or even exceed the outcomes of chemical farming, while dispelling common myths such as the incompatibility of hybrid seeds with organic methods.
The pathway not only focuses on healthy soil and resilient farming systems but also emphasizes producing safe, nutritious food, reducing costs, and creating reliable income streams for smallholder farmers. By addressing ecological restoration alongside economic prosperity, PRADAN’s RA initiative has emerged as a comprehensive and scalable model for rural India.
Since 1987 PRADAN began working with the government and over the years we have played a major role in informing and execution roles in large public welfare and development programs. Recognizing the complexity of social problems like climate change, poverty and gender inequality, PRADAN has adopted a system change approach. PRADAN emphasizes the importance of partnering with the government at the national, state and districts to maximize impact in communities by closely supporting implementation of flagship programs.
They can be reached via:
Phone: 011-4656-0330
Mail: headdoffice@pradan.net
Training
Category –Capacity Building, Handholding, Knowledge Documentation & Resources, Monitoring Evaluation & Learning
Sub-Category – Bio Resource Centers
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Institution / Trainer – Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)
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Short Description –
Audience: CRPs, village organizations, CLFs, FPOs, Agri Entrepreneurs, CSOs
Objectives:
- Rejuvenating soil biology via the use of good quality seeds, addition of organic matter, and inoculation of diverse microbes to the soil
- Promote alternate cropping practices
- Enhancing agroecology by controlling for soil erosion, using raw materials as bio-input, harvesting water, farm yard manure supply, and wasteland development.
- Establishing a local service system consisting of farmers, entrepreneurs, CRPs, CLFs, FPOs and other producer groups.