Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)

Over 60% of India's population still depends on agriculture for their primary livelihoods. Recently, the agriculture sector has faced severe challenges including:

Some of these are

Decreasing soil productivity due lack of focus on sustainability
Weather related uncertainties
Market related uncertainties; falling prices of agri-commodities
Slow progress on technology and practices fronts
Farm level crop diversity has been neglected in last few decades
Lack of access to financial services suited to cash flows of individual farmers

This has led to distressing situations for large populations of rural areas. AKRSP(I) designed its agriculture development activities keeping in mind above points.

Objective of Our Agriculture Program

Food security
Income enhancement
Sustainability

What we do?

System of Root Intensification
Conservation Agriculture
Non Pesticide Management
Organic agriculture
Better seeds
Promoting crop diversity including legumes, millets etc.
Fruits and vegetable cultivation
Integration of agriculture with livestock
On farm water management by drip irrigation, moisture conservation
Irrigation development
Market linkages for agriculture commodities
Promotion of government supported agriculture insurance
Piloting high value crops wherever suitable

Our Achievements

Over 100000 farmers reached through sustainable agriculture program
Food security ensured for over 70000 families
Organic Agriculture with 7000 farmers
Non Pesticide Management with over 20000 farmers
Women involvement in all agriculture activities
Market linkages for over 10000 farmers

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE