Afarm.org is an agricultural development organization in Maharashtra
Title
AFARM
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Objectives:
- Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra (AFARM) is a voluntary organisation formed for the collective benefit of the voluntary organisations through their own collective actions. Born out of an acute felt need for an apex institution to co-ordinate efforts of the voluntary organisations in their task for providing drinking water to villages, AFARM today provides a forum for interaction amongst its members and for the interaction between its members and other funding and developmental organisations including Government for all round NGO development.
- a) AFARM is a non profit organisation, for the promotion of voluntary efforts in the fields of Natural Resources Development, Human Resources Development, Socio-Economic Development of deprived classes of society, and Community Development, such as agriculture, groundwater, soil and water conservation, development of forests, horticulture, environment, ecology, animal husbandry, water management, irrigation, drinking water, village/cottage industries, propagation of formal and non-formal education, health, hygiene and sanitation, welfare of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, denotified tribes, nomadic tribes, tribals, women, handicapped, child labour, etc. in Maharashtra.
