WELCOME To HOPE

Hill agriculture is entirely different from plain agriculture due to climate, topography, small and scattered land holding, rain fed agriculture, unawareness about improved agriculture technologies etc. Changing rainfall pattern, wild animal problems are some other emerging issues causing farmers to leave agriculture and go for other occupation like MNAREGA or laborer work. People specially youth living in villages are leaving agriculture and migrate toward metro cities in search job. Under the situation, it’s a big challenge for agricultural scientist & community and other rural development related officers to check the migration and create opportunities and income generating activaties in the villages itself. The SC/ST community farmers living in villages are more suffers due to less land holding, poor income generating opportunities in villages, social structure of society. Since, they get very poor return from agriculture, therefore, they also engage in other activities like carpentry, tailoring, metal pottery work, laborer etc.
Since, Himalayan Organization for Protecting Environment (HOPE) was formally constituted in the year 1992 in Ranikhet (Distt- Almora). The objective of HOPE is to strengthen the social, economic and moral standard of the rural people of Uttarakhand state. HOPE is voluntary organization based upon social values that is working for the development of social, economic, cultural, environmental, health, agricultural and rural resources of the area since last 27 years. The organization has been supporting Governmental, Non-Governmental and other line departments to expedite the process of social development in the hills of Uttarakhand state. Hope has identified different social problems that influence overall development of the hill areas during its working experience of 27 years.