Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) has won one-million-pound shared prize for natural farming by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

• The initiative was launched by the Andhra Pradesh government but implemented by the non-profit organisation Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS).
• APCNF shared the cash prize with renowned soil scientist Padma Shri Rattan Lal and SEKEM (Egypt-based group of NGOs). These three entities have won the award together for their work in agriculture.
• Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming has shifted one million smallholder farmers (mostly women) to natural farming instead of chemical farming across 5,00,000 hectares in Andhra Pradesh.