Bio-Input Resource Centre (BRC): Driving the Transition to Regenerative Agriculture
The agriculture ecosystem is currently grappling with multiple crises – reduced farm incomes, increased toxicity and declining nutritional quality of food, degradation of natural resources, and increased vulnerability to climate change. PRADAN has adopted Regenerative Agriculture (RA) as a credible pathway to address these challenges, making agriculture ecologically sustainable and economically rewarding for smallholder farmers in India. The approach involves adopting a set of agroecological practices along with the use of appropriate bio-inputs. While the bio-inputs can be sourced from the market or prepared locally by farmers, both options have several challenges.
Thus, the idea of establishing a Bio-input Resource Centre (BRC) has emerged as an alternate arrangement to supply the Bio-inputs predictably while addressing the above limitations.