With ever increasing global warming and its insidious fall out there is greater awareness among the general public in the world about the need to protect environment in all possible ways. The slogan think globally and act locally has caught on and people have started to do things at their level to save the earth than by waiting for the G8 developed nations to cut emissions to save the environment. IT has been felt that at least the speed with which the damage can atleast be reduced by people taking the first step in environment protection. The desire to go back to the ways of our forefathers who did farming only through natural methods is now a major movement due to the harmful effects of taking chemical fertilizers and pesticides aided farm produce. Organic farming has taken a strong hold over the people due to many advantages that it brings with it as it enhances the quality without any harmful effects and the super health that it provides compared with the chemical aided farm produce. ATSWA Trust has joined this movement and is encouraging people to take to organic farming as it has many advantages over the chemical based produce. Going organic brings more profit and cost less to produce than the other one. ATSWA through its awareness programme and active implementation programmes is helping people involved in farming to go in for organic farming using bio fertilizers and bio pesticides. It is also encouraging people to go in for traditional and native variety than the modern ones. It hopes to expand this programme to reach more people to go in not only for organic farming but also in consuming it.
A new Bio Diversity based ecological farming training programme has been started in Sathyavedu and Vardhapalayam Mandal to train 200 tribal people in organic farming methods preparation of Bio Fertilisers and Bio Pesticides. A training programme was conducted by Mr.Glorydoss project coordinator on 9th March 2017 at Vardhapalayam village 200 tribal women took part in it.