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Training Course

On
“Organic Farming and Marketing”
Decades back it was about oils and coca cola, few years back it was about food adulteration,
few months back it was Maggi and now it is about vegetables; we all heard them for wrong
reasons. Either contamination or residues or deadly adulteration making them unsafe to
eat.
How did it happen? The way these foods are produced and the resources that are used to
make them appealing might be making them dangerous. If we make spoil our environment,
the basic needs like food, air, water too get spoiled and ultimately affects humans.
Understanding this, many organisations, farmers and entrepreneurial individuals are trying
to shift to natural and eco-friendly methods. There are various schools of thoughts in this
approach. Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), with its proven record of scientific and
scalable approach, announces a training course on “Organic farming and Marketing” during
1-5, March 2016.
Venue: Hyderabad
Medium of instruction:English
For whom: the training is for the field level functionaries who are working with farmers and
entrepreneurial individuals who want to learn about organic agriculture.
Expectations from the participants:
1. Understanding English language is necessary.
2. Agriculture experience is desired.
Course fee:Rs.10000/- per head (towards lodging boarding, course material and field visit).
Participants have to make their own travel arrangements.
Last date for nomination: 14 February 2016.
Content:
The course would cover the following aspects
1. Understanding Agro-Ecological approaches
2. Building soil fertility
3. Understanding pests and diseases; their management in field and storage
4. Understanding and managing seeds
5. Field visit
6. Organising farmers, quality management/PGS/certification and Marketing (practical
would be on production and business planning)
Morning theoretical classes would be there and afternoon the practical sessions.
About CSA:
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) is an independent resource organization engaged in
establishing models of sustainableagriculture working in partnership with NGOs and
Community Based Organizations by scaling up the successes and engaging with the
establishment for a policy change. CSA believes in promoting sustainable agricultural
technologies that are based on farmers’ knowledge and skills, theirinnovation based on local
conditions and their use of nature’s products and processes to gain better control over the
pre-production and production processes involved in agriculture. CSA works with farmers to
conserve their resources and their rights. CSA has scaled up the Non-pesticidal Management
(NPM experiences) through Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) program
of Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP). CSA has won Rural Livelihood Awards
from Bihar and Maharashtra States for its innovative work. CSA adopts value chain approach
in its work and works on production issues like seeds, soil fertility, pest management, farmer
institutions for collective benefit, markets and dialoguing with government on farmers’
issues. It has a publication wing which brings out monthly magazines as well as resource
books for the agriculture practitioners.
CSA is working in three states (AP, Telangana and Maharashtra) and has an experience of
providing technical support in various states in India as well as abroad. On farmers’
producer organisations (FPOs) CSA has good experience with working models. CSA has
formed “SahajaAharam Producer Company Ltd (SAPCL)” which is a federation of several
producer cooperatives spanning across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and
Maharashtra. SAPCL is an initiative to connect farmers with consumers.
Please send the nominations to the following address:
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture,
12-13-445, street No.1,
Tarnaka, Hyderabad – 500017
Email: training@csa-india.org
Ph. No. 040-2701 7735
For any queries, you may contact Mr. G. Chandra Sekhar – 9440450994.

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