The People at the Center
They produce 80% of the world's food and almost all of its rice. But most smallholder farmers live at the margins: renting land, absorbing risk, and working without the training, tools, or safety nets that larger operations take for granted.
Sustainable farming doesn’t happen in isolation.
For farmers to change practices, communities need to be stable, healthy, and supported. That's why our work extends well beyond the rice fields.
Community Mothers Programme
Community Mother centres provide safe, supervised spaces for children of female rice transplanters — keeping them off the fields and in caring hands. Clean facilities, food, stationary, and age-appropriate activities. A core fixture of every harvest season.
Women's Medical Camps
Free medical treatment for over 10,000 women across 75 villages during harvest and transplanting seasons — delivered by 17 NetZeroAg team members. Free medication included.
Mobile Medical Facilities
Mobile medical camps deployed during key farming seasons, serving hundreds of workers and their families in the villages where they actually live.
Youth Skills Training
Practical, income-generating training for young people from low-income farming families — cookery, welding, tailoring, embroidery, computer basics. We enrol both girls and boys. We build options that didn't exist before.
Teachers & Human Rights Programme
Training local teachers on child labour, child abuse, and human rights. Sensitising children aged 10–16 on issues affecting their communities. Teachers become lasting advocates and a resource network for NetZeroAg's ongoing work.
What Farmers are saying
