Hyderabad: The National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM) here and the Telangana government’s Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), have joined hands to accelerate natural farming in the state. NIPHM has recently trained 56 district-level officials and 318 women entrepreneurs to establish Bio-Input Resource Centres (BRCs) to promote natural farming across Telangana. The trained women entrepreneurs were provided with essential equipment and facilities required to establish the BRCs at the village level. BRC is a center to disseminate knowledge and experience related to the application of natural farming bio-inputs to local farmers. Through these centres, the trained women shall also disseminate low-cost farming techniques to other rural women while providing locally prepared bio-inputs for improving soil and plant health.