sahaja samrudha

Krishikala is a venture spearheaded by Seema Prasad to create awareness about the art form and train rural women artisans to craft gourds into beautiful showpieces and collectibles.

From local multicolour varieties to ones from as far as Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and even Sri Lanka, Shankar and Roopa grow these all!

Drought-prone villages of Karnataka are now self-sufficient in their seed needs and selling the excess seeds back while producing high yields.

A community initiative working to preserve traditional varieties of crops through organic farming, 'Sahaja Samrudha' (Bountiful Nature) is a fast-expanding network of small farmers and like-minded individuals who are working to make sustainable agriculture a way of life in India's farming community.