Navdanya organised a Public hearing on “Organic farming as the Real Green Revolution, a solution to poverty and hunger”  at Balasore in Odisha on 23rd. January, 2013.  The Public Hearing was inaugurated by Sri Srikant Jena, Union Minister for Chemical & Fertiliser in the presence of Dr. Vandana Shiva, Sri Jiban Pradip

Dash, MLA, Balasore, Sri Gopa Narayan Das, Ex-MLA, Balasore, Sri Ananta Das, MLA, Bhograi, Balasore and President, Balasore district BJD unit, Sri Gopal Chandra Das, Ex-Director of Agriculture, Govt. of Odisha, Sri Gouri Rout, Ex Chairman, Balasore Regional Improvement Trust, Dr. Mira Shiva, Professor(Dr.) Kumarbar Das, Vice Chancellor, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Dr. Sarla Gopalan, IAS, Ex Secretary

to the Govt. of India, Women & Child Development Deptt., Professor(Dr.) Vir Singh of Pant Nagar Agriculture University, Sri Ajay Rastogi, Dr. A K Sannigrahi, Addl. Director, Proof & Experimental, Ministry of Defense, Balasore, Dr. A K Panigrahi, former Principal Investigator, UGC/ Navdanya funded Major Research Project on

Organic Farming, Professor(Dr.) T C  Kara, Principal, Fakir Mohan Autonomous College, Dr. Vinod Kumar Bhatt, Programme Director, Navdanya Trust, Dehradun, Sri Achyut Das, President, Agragamee, Kashipur, Odisha, Sri Sudarsan Das, Secretary, Human Development Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Sri Prasant Mohanty, Basundhara, Bhubaneswar, Mrs. Kusum Misra, State Coordinator, Navdanya Odisha.

More than 400 people participated in the Public hearing. Of these 110 were local dignitaries, Govt. Officers, College and University Professors, volunteers, University, College & school students, guardians and 211

farmers including 49 women farmers drawn from Balasore, Mayurbhanj and Bhadrak districts of Odisha.

Balasore declaration on Vision 2020 for Organic Odisha was also prepared by the farmers and group of Scientists that was given to the local representatives..