Srishti

Srishti means creation, and stands for Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Innovation. They seem to be doing amazing work with discovery of local innovations and technological developments, and then promoting it. They conduct Shodh Yatras where they visit different villages and learn about interesting things that people are doing, like an amphibious bicycle, an areca nut husking machine, tilting bullock cart, bamboo splints device, bicycle sprayer, coconut tree climbing device, coconut defibring machine, cycle operated water pump, oil seed crusher, garlic peeling, incubator for hatching eggs, lemon cutting machine, pepper thresher, water turbine with irrigation facilities, and much more.

What is more important is the vision that bringing technology closer to the source of production eliminates a lot of middlemen and red tape, that can only improve production and the economic status of farmers.

Saurav just told me that the person behind Srishti is Prof. Anil Gupta from IIT Ahmedabad. His page is located here. And a good article is here.