PAGVS was formed by a group of youth who wanted to fight against illiteracy, lack of hygiene, and for pure drinking water and livelihoods. In the last 16 years it has worked in the field of social development in the areas of water conservation, organic farming and forming people?s institutions. PAGVS had successfully implemented a SGP project in 10 villages promoting organic farming practices in hilly, remote terrains with poor infrastructure. The villages were known for off-season vegetable cultivation and excessive use of synthetic agro-inputs. Based on the emerging impact of the completed project, PAGVS is now scaling up the project in four blocks in Solan and Sirmour districts of Himachal Pradesh. The specific objectives of the project are:
? Promotion of tested, piloted Organic Farming techniques on a large scale.
? Popularize and create a market for Organic Produce among the Consumers and Traders.
? To create responsive quality testing of produce and to ensure better price and recognition as a Organic product.
? To prove authenticity of composts and bio-pesticides among new farmers willing to adopt organic farming.
The specific projected outputs of the project are:
? Develop a long-term relationship to work with Agricultural Institutions and other Technical departments in the state and country. (Governmental and Private).
? Disseminations and capacity building of practices, techniques on to a wider area covering 50 villages at different sites.
? Application of Practices on wider-range of crops ie. Horticulture, vegetables and grains. Develop a community-owned; village based marketing arrangements for transportation, packaging and marketing of the organic Products. Ensure proper quality testing and certification of bio-pesticides, composts as quality products for better markets.
? Create necessary IEC material and documentation of the technologies, practices and techniques, i.e. Calendars, Posters etc.
? Consumer awareness with respect to food commodities grown organically through fairs, Exhibitions and in other social gatherings.
? Responsive Organization Staff, systems and Practices. Systems of monitoring, training and feedback such as Management and Information (MIS) will be developed with in the agency .

Major activities to achieve the purpose are:

? General awareness in Eco-Sustainable Agriculture among the farmers and members of Federations in different villages.
? Develop a long term relationship with agricultural institutions. This relates to various kinds of association in farming, taking advices, experimenting mutually at the demonstration centre and certifying the produces of Organic Farming.
? Training to farmers for adoption of Organic Farming techniques and Refresher training to old farmers.
? Village demonstration in preparation of bio-pesticide, bio-dynamic compost etc.
? Cultivation of different types of crops at demonstration centre at DAHAR, for the purpose of demonstration among the project beneficiaries and documentation.
? Incentive to new farmers i.e. pitcher, bucket etc.
? Developing and printing of IEC materials for distribution among the farmers.
? Certificates of bio-pesticides and bio-dynamic compost.
? Consumer survey for marketing of organic produces i.e. House Hold marketing Points, Hotels and other Business Establishments.
? Publicity for the Marketing of Organic Produce.