The Deccan Development Society (DDS) is a decades-old, grassroots organization working in about 75 villages with women's Sanghams in the Medak District of Andhra Pradesh. It is currently made up of 5000 female members of their society who each represent their village communities.
DDS hopes to strengthen the fight for an ecological future for thousands of rural farming women with whom it has been working for several decades. This will be through countering the arguments of the genetic engineering industry and colluding scientific establishments by counter posing a people’s vision of Indian agriculture.