Subject(s): Agriculture in Economic aspects in India. -- Non profit organizations in India. -- Role of NGOs in Indian agriculture : NGOs- a theoretical platform, understanding NGOs role in development process : policy for poor, middle class moorings, co-operatives -- NGOs and irrigation development : Tube-well and lift irrigation, resource centred organisation, canal irrigation, collective action and irrigation management, generalisation v/s local specificity, surface irrigation, ground water irrigation -- Micro finance and agricultural development : saving and credit operations, purpose-wise distribution of credit -- Former-centred NGOs : Alternative public distribution system DDS, food distribution intervention, preventing genetic erosion -- Sustenance and economic viability : Pre-conditions and intra-institutional structure, extra-institutional and regime-specific conditions, financial stability, sustaining participation -- Farmers movements in the post independence period : Farmers movements- evolution and processes -- Old framers movements : Swaraj, tebhaga movement in Bengal,telangana movement, bhoodan movement, nijai bol and land grab movements in UP, nazalbari movement, malabar movement, shahada movement -- New movements : Bharatiya kisan union in punjab and UP, tamilaga vyavasavayigal sanghan in Tamil Nadu,shetkari sanghatana of maharashtra, karnataka raja ryot sangha (KRRS) -- Farmer's movements in retrospect, lesson learnt