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National Agro Foundation
A smiling woman farmer in a green saree standing in a ripening paddy field, coconut palms behind her

Partner with us

Bring a programme to a district that needs one.

For CSR teams, foundations and government agencies. National Agro Foundation designs and runs rural development programmes with its partners. Tell us the geography and the outcome you are after, and we will come back with what it takes.

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Projects running now
24
Projects delivered
35
States, and 2 union territories
08
Villages reached
6,045

Who we are

Twenty-five years of rural development, with a laboratory behind it.

National Agro Foundation is a not-for-profit public charitable trust, founded in Chennai in 2000 by Bharat Ratna Shri C. Subramaniam, the Architect of India’s Green Revolution. It works with small and marginal farm households on watershed development, climate-smart agriculture, Farmer Producer Organisations, socio-economic development, training, laboratory testing and research.

For more than two decades, NAF has partnered with farmers, governments, corporate CSR initiatives and research institutions to build resilient livelihoods and create lasting impact.

  • UN ECOSOC

    Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, under the social development category.

  • NABL-accredited laboratory

    Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for soil, food, water and organic fertilizer testing.

  • SIRO recognition

    Registered as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, valid up to 31.03.2029.

  • National CSR Hub, TISS

    Empanelled under the National CSR Hub at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

  • FSSAI FoSTaC

    Empanelled Training Partner for FSSAI's Food Safety Training and Certification programme.

  • NAFED

    Empanelled with NAFED.

What you can fund

Six divisions, one farm household.

A partnership can sit in one division or draw on several. Each division page sets out its work and its projects.

How a partnership works

From a first email to a report on what changed.

Every programme is shaped around the partner's priorities and the community's needs. This is the path it usually follows.

  1. 01

    Enquiry

    Tell us what you want to achieve: the theme, the geography, the people you want to reach.

  2. 02

    Needs assessment

    We look at the proposed area with the community and local stakeholders, to find what the households there need next.

  3. 03

    Proposal

    We come back with a programme design: the interventions, the expected outcomes and what it takes to deliver them.

  4. 04

    Implementation

    NAF's field teams run the programme with the community, drawing on the divisions and the laboratory as the work requires.

  5. 05

    Reporting

    Progress and outcomes are reported back to the partner in the same terms our project pages use: hectares, kilolitres, households and enterprises.

Track record

Who we already work with.

Programmes are funded and run with corporate CSR teams, banks, government and research institutions, a few of the sixty-plus organisations we work with.

Corporate CSR and foundations

  • Tata Capital
  • HDFC Bank Parivartan
  • Titan Company
  • Novartis
  • Larsen & Toubro Unnati
  • L&T Technology Services
  • LTIMindtree
  • LTM Foundation
  • Asian Paints
  • Wells Fargo
  • BNY
  • The Indian Hotels Company
  • Walmart Foundation
  • Renault Nissan Automotive India
  • KLA
  • NASSCOM Foundation
  • Worldwide Logistics
  • Confederation of Indian Industry
  • Sustainable Development Foundation
  • Capri Loans
  • TCPL Packaging

Government and public institutions

  • NABARD
  • SFAC
  • Tamil Nadu Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium
  • NCDC
  • Government of Tamil Nadu
  • Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project
  • Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project
  • District Rural Development Agency

Flagship programmes

Get in touch

Tell us the geography and the outcome.

Write to us with your organisation, the theme and region you have in mind, and a contact person. We will come back to arrange a conversation.

Email a partnership enquiry

Need our registration and compliance documents for due diligence? Ask and we will send them. Ask for our registration documents

Email
naf@nationalagro.org
Call
044 22542598044 22542803
Head office
NAF Research & Development CentreAnna University Taramani Campus, CSIR Road, Taramani,Chennai - 600 113, Tamil Nadu, India.