SAFI is a not for profit voluntary organisation registered under Societies Registration Act. The domains with which SAFI works are distinctly clear; agriculture, food and innovation. SAFI envisions to work closely with the people and uplifts their occupation through knowledge and technology intervention, networking and imbibing sense of dignity. Building on the faith of our people, SAFI aspires to play a leading role in achieving the following objectives.  

Objectives

  1. To augment the overall development of agricultural practices, post-harvesting and food processing and contribute in raising the productivity and living standards of farming community and all stakeholders in the food chain in sustainable and nature friendly manner.
  2. To diffuse the requisite skills and knowledge to farmers in managing the farms in better fashion through training, demonstration and interaction with experts and fellow farmers.
  3. To demonstrate, deploy and diffuse new technologies to the farmers and food processors in the area of cultivation, irrigation system, soil management, weather forecasting, pest management, food processing, etc.
  4. To professionalize farmers in their occupation by providing round the year extension services and advices. This may include interactive telephonic services, radio, internet etc.
  5. To undertake surveys and analyse the agricultural bottlenecks and suggest means for troubleshooting and assisting agricultural and food policies of state and nation.
  6.  To take up nutritional intervention measures in mitigating nutrition related health issues
  7. To publish journals, newsletters and reports and exchange information between the ground and tables and to maintain a dynamic web portal to funnel all the information related to agriculture and food processing and delivering them to stakeholders in an easy, friendly and systematic manner thereby to act as an information hub.
  8. To recognise the grassroots’ inventiveness of the state and promote innovators in scaling up their ideas into a concrete model so as to solve social and technological problems of the society besides commercialisation.
Vision
  1.  To become a repository of agri, food and nutrition and innovation related knowledge resources and enabler in fulfilling state dream of self sufficiency and growth through knowledge/ technology dissemination and sharing.
  2.  To be a thought leader in national/ regional issues related to agri, food, nutrition and innovation and play pro-active role providing intellectual and scientific input.
  3. To be a leader in recognising innovative potential and assist them in scaling up into business enterprises.