Promoting climate-resilient farming, traditional knowledge, agricultural biodiversity, resource management and better market opportunities for rural farming communities.
VOCRDC actively promotes sustainable agriculture across Tamil Nadu, focusing on farmer training, resource management, and market access. We aim to improve rural living standards by strengthening productivity, profitability, climate resilience, and nature-friendly farming methods.
Our objective is to empower marginalized farming communities through traditional knowledge, grassroots innovations, and the conservation of agricultural biodiversity, promoting a people's movement based on Gandhian principles.
Farmers have benefited from our programs, gaining access to knowledge, resources and sustainable agricultural practices.
Counselling farmers on new techniques, organic farming, crop insurance and access to agricultural loans.
Farmers Clubs facilitate access to shared farm equipment at nominal rates and distribution of quality seeds and saplings.
VOCRDC combines local farming knowledge, grassroots innovations and agricultural biodiversity conservation to strengthen farmer self-reliance and sustainable rural development.
Supporting farmers with knowledge, resources and nature-friendly agricultural solutions.
Our agricultural initiatives support productivity, climate resilience, biodiversity conservation and farmer self-reliance.
Farmers have benefited from sustainable agriculture, training, resource management and livelihood initiatives.
System of Rice Intensification has been promoted across 850 acres to encourage climate-resilient farming.
SRI farming has resulted in an average 22% increase in agricultural yields.
Community-managed seed banks preserve and propagate indigenous agricultural varieties.
12 indigenous crop varieties are preserved and propagated, safeguarding local agricultural biodiversity.
Farmers Clubs strengthen community networks and improve access to shared equipment, seeds and saplings.
A dedicated resource centre provides guidance on farming techniques, organic agriculture, insurance and loans.
VOCRDC promotes a people-centred approach based on traditional knowledge, grassroots innovation and Gandhian principles.
Working together with farming communities to create productive, resilient and nature-friendly agricultural systems.
