Hindustan Zinc’s Samadhan project generates ₹192 crore farm income
The CSR programme focuses on enhancing productivity, reducing labour intensity and promoting sustainable agriculture through crop diversification, dairy development, livestock asset creation and farmer-led microenterprises.
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Hindustan Zinc Ltd’s Samadhan project under its CSR initiatives has touched the lives of nearly 1.4 lakh farmers since its inception, catalysing over ₹192 crore in diversified farm income in the past year alone, according to a company release.
The Samadhan programme, focused on farm-based interventions, is designed to help local farmers enhance productivity, reduce labour intensity, and adopt sustainable agricultural methods. Through a multi-pronged approach encompassing crop diversification, dairy development, livestock asset creation, microenterprise promotion and farmer-owned institutions, this programme has delivered measurable outcomes over the past year, the release said.
These include over ₹90 crore in livestock asset creation, over 280 lakh litres of milk production valued at more than ₹88 crore, over ₹13 crore generated through five individual farmer producer organisations, and nearly ₹7 crore in revenues from farmer-led microenterprises.
Cornerstone of success
It said that a cornerstone of Samadhan’s success lies in the creation of strong grassroots institutions and farmer ownership. The initiative has mobilised 510 farmer interest groups and five individual farmer producer organisations comprising over 9,300 farmer-shareholders, enabling aggregation, assured market access and long-term sustainability.
The release said Samadhan has covered 2,449 hectares of land through the adaptation of climate-smart agriculture activities like small plot, hi-tech vegetable cultivation, precision irrigation, trellis farming, scientific dairy management, medicinal crops, and bio-fortified crops such as zinc and iron-enriched wheat, leading to improved productivity, better nutrition outcomes and enhanced incomes.
Women-led change
Women farmers are also emerging as changemakers within this journey. From dairy entrepreneurship to horticulture and leadership roles within farmer interest groups, their participation is strengthening household prosperity and community resilience, it said.
Published on December 23, 2025
