During the 10th and
11th Five-year plan CSV worked as a Mother NGO in the field of
Watershed Management, for the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of
Maharashtra. Under this program, CSV disseminated Land Cover Management
technologies and methodologies to Government and Non-Government organizations
of Wardha, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Nagpur, Bhandara, and Gondia.
As the mother NGO the
CSV transferred appropriate technologies like Biotechnology, Organic Farming,
Food Processing, Processing of NTFP, Herbal Medicine, Natural Dying, etc. to
thousands of farmers and SHG members of 220 villages of Vidarbha region. In
many cases, the trained beneficiary could successfully convert technologies
into trade.