Navdanya Community Seed Banks

Till date Navdanya has set up 150 community seed banks in 22 states of India in the last 30 years. Many seed banks are now running independent of Navdanya's support. Navdanya has also trained and created awareness amongst about 750,000 farmers in seed sovereignty, food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture over the past two decades, and helped setup the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the country. We have also established a conservation and training center at village Ramgarh in Doon Valley, in Siquanderabad in U.P. and Balasore in Orissa. More than 4000 rice varieties have been collected, saved and conserved by Navdanya in last 30 years. Forgotten food crops such as millets, pseudo-cereals and pulses have been conserved and promoted by Navdanya which were pushed out by the green revolution and expanding monocultures.