CARD | Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development

About CARD

Established in the year 2000 under the aegis of the Societies Registration Act, 1860, the Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) stands as a distinguished non-governmental institution, instrumental in advancing India’s agrarian renaissance and rural rejuvenation.

CARD’s raison d’être is rooted in its unwavering commitment to penetrate every echelon of rural society, with particular emphasis on the agricultural constituency. The organization ardently engages in initiatives designed to ameliorate the socioeconomic condition of the rural populace by deliberating on intricate technical, economic, and policy paradigms that influence agronomic development and rural livelihoods.

Operating with a pan-Indian footprint, CARD undertakes a diverse gamut of interventions across agriculture, horticulture, and rural development. The organization prioritizes the propagation of knowledge, human capital augmentation, and the dissemination of advanced technologies. These objectives are operationalized through a dynamic assemblage of activities encompassing thematic seminars, high-level policy conclaves, capacity enhancement workshops for farmers, agro-industrial exhibitions, empirical surveys, and longitudinal developmental projects, including village adoption for sustainable progress.

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.