Farmers First!! With this concept, OSVSWA is operating its most of the projects and programs in Odisha State of India, which is farmer-centric, where agriculture is the main source of livelihood options of the majority of its population. this entails ‘Lab to Land’ by the promotion of new technologies among farmers. The focus is to help the small holder farmers reduce yield gap and expand their activities through exploring the potential of making use of fallow lands and innovative and affordable interventions through Innovations, Resources, Science and Technology. OSVSWA’s programs aims at enriching Farmers-Scientists interface, technology assemblage, application and feedback, partnership and institution building at village / cluster level and content mobilization. OSVSWA seeks to provide a platform to farmers and agri-scientists for creating linkages, capacity development, technology adaptation and application, on-site input management and institution building which will address the general wellbeing of farmers, to improve rural health, nutrition and livelihood. Providing improved technologies, farmer empowerment through knowledge sharing, value addition of raw products of pulses, vegetables, millets, quality seed production, etc. are major components of OSVSWA’s projects in the Farmers First operations.