SRI SRI INSTITUTE
OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
& TECHNOLOGY TRUST

World Earth Day on 22nd April, 2021

SSIAST celebrated the World Earth Day on 22nd April, 2021 in the model farm at the Art of living campus. The main theme of this celebration has been "Restore our Earth". All the staffs had come up with various placards in various languages spreading the message on preserving and restoring our mother earth. All staffs participated in planting of Lakshmi Taru (the miracle tree) saplings in the model farm. The CEO of SSIAST, Mr. S.R. Venkatesh explained about the importance of honey bees and on the need of preserving the mother earth. He also emphasized on reducing the use of plastics to save our mother earth.

Sri Sri agri teacher, Shri Ajay Jadhav honoured by Krishi Bhushan puraskar for natural farming by Maharashtra Govt. for 2020. Shri. Ajay Jadhav dedicated this honour to Gurudev.

19th IFOAM Organic World Congress 2017 and BIOFACH INDIA together with INDIA ORGANIC 2017, celebrated their presence from 9th to 11th November 2017 at India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida, India.

• SSIAST as a regional council of National Conference on Organic farming participated and highlighted farmers’ work in organic especially with regards to innovations used on their farms. Presentations were given by Sri Ramkrishna Reddy ji , Chairman , SSIAST TRUST , Ms. Uma Maheshwari, Agri Apex member of Andhra Pradesh and Ms. Archana Jha, Agri Apex member of Delhi on the topics of Seeds & Biodiversity, Soil Fertility & Health, Soil Life & Plant Health, and the role of SSIAST Trust for the Ecological Farming Practices & Systems.
• In the Scientific Track platform , research results were presented and discussed by our Krishi Ratna Awardee farmer Suraj Of Kerala, His papers were usefully linked with scientific disciplines such as soil, plant, animal, or economics , carrying an outline of how the research presented contributes to Organic 3.0 - The next phase of organic development.

WOMEN OF INDIA – Organic festival 2017

• We are pleased to inform all that the Ministry of Women and Child Development is organizing “WOMEN OF INDIA – Organic festival 2017” from 1st to 15th October 2017 at Dilli Haat.
• The festival is being held at Dilli Haat near INA metro station, Maharaja Agarsen Marg, Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi.
• It is a matter of immense pride that 14 women farmers who were trained by SSIAST are participating in the Organic festival in Delhi. SSIAST has trained many women farmers, out of which these 14 women farmers were selected. These farmers are firmly committed to promoting organic farming.

Preliminary Teacher’s Training Program on Natural farming

• Preliminary Teacher’s Training Program on Natural farming was conducted on Sept 15th to Sep 17th,2017 at the Kerala Ashram, Maruthankuzhi, Trivandrum.
• Brahamachari Deepak ji inaugurated the training program.
• The Senior Agri Teachers Bela ji, Sathish ji and Narayanan Potti ji along with Agri APEX chairman Dr Ramachandran took the training program.
• The training program was attended by 77 participants.
• It included Agricultural, Practical, Group discussion and CD sessions taken by different teachers which involved lot of brainstorming ideas to promote Natural Farming.