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Design, Develop and Disseminate Technologies

IFTR aims to help maintain the society self-sustainably by carrying out programmes of social/rural importance for providing livelihood, income generation, and upliftment of poor through various means.

Empowering Small and Marginal Farmers

Your support will help many farmers to go organic and reduce the use of harmful pesticides, contribute positively to climate change, and address overall development.

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About Us

20+ Years as a not-for-profit organization to help women in rural areas to stand on their own legs by using an evolving technology – eco-friendly paper production using agricultural wastes.

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2002

initiated

Started as a CBO to help rural women to use technology for livelihood

2005-2014

Simple Possible Interventions

2015

Name Changed to IFTR

More activities included. New team, New Directions, New Areas. First Farmers meeting on Sustainable Food Production. Rural Entrepreneurship Mentor Accreditation. NITI Aayog Darpan Registration.

2017

Signed MOU's

MOU with College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, CBNU, Korea & others for joint research. GuideStar Accreditation

2018

Opening office at Velachery, Chennai

Nutritional Awareness Programmes Start. Traditional Lactation Recipe contest. 12A registration. Toolbox / Tata Engage Collaboration for volunteering.

2019

Awareness Programmes

80G registration. D&B DUNS Accreditation. School Assistance. Farmers Awareness & Aggregation. Nutritional Awareness. External assignment to evaluate organic farmers.

2020

Covid-19 Assistance

Covid-19 Assistance at Vijayapuram Mandal. Initiation of Farmers Awareness cum Interaction Meetings.

2021

Continuation of Farmers Awareness cum Interaction Meetings

Collaborating with ICCW, IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai Field office at Arcot Kuppam & Vijayapuram MoU with Toolbox MoU with TREC-STEP Initiation of FPOs in ArcotKuppam Iluppur Agricultural Producers Company

2022