Agriculture and Natural Resources

In this global era, it is disheartening that farmers are substituting local crops with foreign crops that have been well characterized. It is our goal to create an electronic database of local food and medicinal crops as our effort towards food security. We work with farmers through workshops and focus group discussions on sustainable farming practices as well as better characterization of local crops and plants.

Major activities include:

• Train new farmers in the region for sustainable food production.
• Encourage new farming techniques.
• Introduce new crops and plants into the region to increase the nutritional supplements.
• Introduce and develop climate adaptable crops to withstand drought.

• Improved irrigation methods.
• Application of biochar to farming techniques.
• Sustainable marketing of farming produce.
• Process agricultural produce to reduce waste and increase their shelf-life.
• Re-purpose agricultural wastes for local use such as biogas, manuring and manufacturing.

• Introduction to improved farming methods.
• Introduction to good farming techniques.
• Widelife and natural vegetation conservation.
• Introduction to permacultural practices.
• Reafforestation and planting of tree crops.

• Extracting natural colors from plants and flowers.