This Hyderabad-based organisation has helped over 250.000 farmers through permaculture

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is striving to achieve ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming.


The word ’permaculture’ is derived from PERMAnent agriCULTURE or PERMAnent CULTURE. It stands for responsible and wise use of natural resources in a way that will sustain life for the present as well as future generations. It is a philosophy and practice that enables people to design and establish productive systems to provide for their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs, in harmony with natural systems.

Narsanna and Padma Koppula believed that permaculture has the power to solve many challenges faced by Indian farmers. With an aim to provide alternate solutions to the present chemical agricultural practices, the duo founded Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, an environmental and developmental NGO, in Hyderabad in March 1999. ‘Aranya’ in Sanskrit means forest and forests were considered as the home for all life forms by ancient Indian mythology.


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