Its target is to bring down the cost of production in farming and provide higher income to farmers by following organic methods.

Member-farmers do not cultivate the same crop; the produce is purchased by the society; and farmers are debt-free.

Farmers who have reclaimed native seeds as a commons have reduced costs, increased incomes, become debt-free and are not driven to suicide.

Bamboo beds with layers of dried water hyacinth, silt, vermicompost and farm yard manure, dry leaves of leguminous plants, etc. float on the water bodies.

“We count the number of millionaires, but not the millions of pickers who are active in our nation’s backyards.”

Studies have shown that using this method the yield goes up over a period of time.

Only the locally available seeds, local breed of the cow and local soil can make such farming a self-sustainable, no-additional-cost method.

160 varieties of Paddy seeds, 20 varieties of Finger Millet and vegetable seeds were on display in different stalls at the seed fair.

Most participating farmers said that the cost-effective INSAP technology had helped them regain the confidence to continue farming.