Darohar Samiti initially worked with the traditional craftsmen of Bastar region. While working with these communities the organization realized that the loss of biodiversity in the region was an issue of serious concern. In 1995, with the participation of local communities initiated local action programme to conserve indigenous seed varieties. The members of the organization are basically farmers. The goal of the project is in-situ conservation of 250 indigenous varieties of rice through awareness generation about agriculture related traditional knowledge, establishment of seed bank at the farm level and promotion of environmentally sound and sustained farming techniques like the Madagascar Techniques. The project will help in conservation and propagation of rice. Use of rice intensification technique will help farmers in getting better yields from traditional varieties. Thus implementation of the project would help in retaining organic agricultural techniques. The seed banks will help in conservation of the indigenous gene pool for rice. Women SHGs will be formed in the villages and initial seeds will be provided to the SHGs to build the farm level seed banks.