AdisilOrganic Cotton Fair Trade Support for Low Income Farmers
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Member since April 2011.
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WebSite:
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www.adisil.org
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Contact: Balasubramanian
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Address:
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ADISIL, 15/B Pioneer colony, Tirumangalam, Tamil Nadu
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Madurai,
Country: India
625706
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+91 9842048317
2nd Phone:
04549 284562
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Description:
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Online ordering:
No
Nonprofit: Yes
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Our goal is eradication of poverty and creation of employment opportunities in
rural Tamil Nadu by ecologically conscious and socially committed actions
through developing a replicable agro-educational system for sustainable,
self-reliant livelihood.
In Tamil Nadu, the southern part of India,
small and marginal farmers sell their lands to rich absent landlords. They are
unable to cultivate their lands due to exorbitant cost of inputs and
infrastructure,including large-scale irrigation facilities. Traders from urban
areas purchase the lands and they pledge the lands to banks for getting loans
for nonagricultural purposes. The lands are abandoned and kept idle. The
purchasing power of the pois thus lowered and abject poverty rises. Most of the
small and marginal farmers go to bed hungry every night. Their debt keeps
escalating. Sustainable agriculture, which implies farming using local resources
only, is the only way for them to escape from the debt burden.
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Focus:
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1) Environmental
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is OUR
community project.
