The emancipation of poverty through education and child rights for children of marginalized communities. Also reaching out to every child of Meerut district and other areas through a 24 hour free telephone helpline, a project by the Government of India.

Sustainable use of natural resources, to ensure that our environment does not pose a risk to human health, and can sustain an appropriate and diverse wildlife.
Empowerment of marginalized communities to improve their own environment and safeguarding their human rights.

How we use so much less yet make so much more

Water quality protection and provision of safe drinking water, water Resource Conservation and provision of safe, sufficient and sustainable water resources for all

Restored and protected agricultural land, providing nutritious and healthy food sustainably, for current and future generations.

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Janhit Foundation
180/7 Shastri Nagar,
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
India

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Voice +91.121.2763418
+91.121.4004123
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Enhancing the Income Opportunities of the Farming Community of Meerut District through Organic Sugarcane Cultivation and Value Addition

Sugarcane is the predominant crop cultivated in Uttar Pradesh and its dominants the rural landscape, hence the name for the state as the ‘sugar bowl of India’. For this reason, Janhit Foundation took up this innovative project in partnership with Sir Ratan Tata Trust, covering over 50 farmers and to convert them to the organic cultivators of sugarcane. Since the majority of farmers in the district are already involved in growing sugarcane if the foundation could convince them to switch to organic means of production it would drastically reduce the amount of agro-chemicals used in the state. In an attempt to persuade farmers to switch to organic methods the foundation discussed the advantages of organic farming and the chief concerns of the farmers that there was no prospective market for organic sugarcane.
It was a further step towards building an organic movement in the Meerut district with the following objectives:

Shifting from high external input agriculture to low input based sustainable agriculture;
increasing the farmers’ income;
strengthening the soil health by enriching it with organic matter;
value addition in organic Sugarcane produce through Gur making.

Farmers were motivated to be associated with this project and the end production of this organic gur (jaggery) which shall be provided in the market at higher premiums and
To complete the chain outlined in the ‘Seed to Market’ project, Janhit Foundation has also facilitated the production of organic gur in January 2009. The farmers were trained through various sessions in which they were also made aware of the certification process of the organic crop by a Certification Agency.

This project has seen many farmers adopting organic methods of agriculture to cultivate sugarcane, which is turn has had multiple benefits for the environment and communities involved.