CARD | Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development

About CARD

Established and registered in the year 2000 under the Societies Registration Act 1860, Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development is a premier Non-Government Organization, playing a vital role in the national efforts of developing India through agricultural transformation. CARD is committed towards reaching out to all parts of the rural society, especially the farming community. CARD also participates actively towards improving the quality of life of rural masses by addressing technical, economic policy issues related to the development of agriculture and rural society.

CARD is engaged in a variety of activities in agriculture, horticulture and rural development with maintaining a national presence. The organization focuses on information dissemination, training, capacity-building and technology exposure by organizing business seminars, technical conferences, farmers’ workshops, agro trade fairs, conducting surveys & studies, and adopting villages for their sustainable development. CARD monitors trends in agriculture and agribusinesses and advises Central and State Governments, NGOs and various bodies on appropriate policies and actions for the development of agriculture and rural economy.

What we do

Livelihood Programs

CARD facilitates sustainable farm-livelihoods and sustenance post-project. The chief focus is large scale capacity building of small and marginal farmers to facilitate adoption of improved technologies and practices to attain rapid growth in farms enabling them to access mainstream markets...

Project Facilitation

CARD is engaged in Contract farming which is defined as a system for the production and supply of agriculture/ horticulture produce under forward contract between producers/ suppliers and farmers. CARD facilitates the commitment of the producer/ seller to provide an agriculture commodity of...

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development had started ACABC Training Program in April-2008 at Indira Nagar, Lucknow. The Program has never looked back after its starting. There is no downfall. CARD has made presentations to several organizations in this regard showing the total number of...

Training and Capacity Building

It is a well-known fact that the farmers in general have a poor resource base as a result there risk bearing ability is also quite low. The farmers across different size groups are reluctant adopters they adopt new technology only after they are perfectly sure of its success and when they...

Famers Awareness Program

CARD provides digital financial literacy training and facilitates access to such instruments for rural communities. Creating Awareness and Access through CARD, aims to enable the rural masses to become digitally financial stable, by hosting awareness sessions on government policies and digital...

Farmer Literacy Program

CARD provides its consulting services in Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries to new and existing agripreneurs to help them in their project area and maximize their revenue by upgrading their knowledge and skills through various researches, consultancy, project implementation...

Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development under its pioneering project Uttar Pradesh Krishi Vikas Pariyojana is setting up a chain of agri business centers in the name of Bhagidari Agribusiness Centres, in all the district of UP. The vision is to bring about agricultural transformation by developing block level self-sustaining agribusiness centres which could function as nodal growth bodies. CARD has till date set up 120 such agribusiness centers in the State which reflects its commitment to the State's agriculture development.