About CTRD Profile

CTRD was established in 2004 with the aim to provide training, research and development support to farmers and rural communities in India. The organization works towards improving the livelihoods of farmers by providing them with access to modern agricultural practices, technology and market linkages. CTRD also conducts research on various aspects of agriculture and rural development to identify challenges and opportunities for growth in the sector.

Consortium for Training, Research and Development (CTRD) in the period (2004-2026) has executed more than 100 projects with the fund support mostly from Government of West Bengal and Government of India. The major role of CTRD is skill training coupled with business/enterprise incubation support through institution development of growers/farmers and niche market linked enterprise development in the domain of agriculture that includes horticulture, fisheries, poultry and dry flower. CTRD has worked more than 1,00,000 trainees directly from 2004 to till date through executing more than 100 projects. CTRD has facilitated credit infusion of around 4 crore and grant aid of around 1.22 crore in the beneficiary account of more than 7000 agriculture entrepreneurs. Thus CTRD is successfully related to Consultancy, Training, Capacity building, Promotion and Networking with the farmers.

CTRD is working in agriculture sector for last 20 years with mission of linking farm product with the market. CTRD worked in SGSY, then worked in MGNREGA, then worked in Farm families’ livelihood program, National Agriculture Innovation Project, followed by Income generation activities in Forest based livelihood. All these activities are farmers' institution based market linked business activities basing on farm produce. With this experience CTRD now looks for opportunity to scale it up in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Jharkhand and other neighbouring states.