Sources of income are limited in the hills of Uttarakhand and this is mainly due to the rough terrain and harsh weather conditions. To improve the overall quality of life in these areas, livelihood opportunities were required to be implemented, so that the people gain means for income generation.

RDI took up several activities for creation of livelihood opportunities in Uttarakhand, both farm and off farm activities. These are:

* Farm Activities

    - Agricultural activities like Integrated pest management, Integrated pest nutritional       management, soil management, organic composting etc.

    - Horticulture     

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* Off Farm Activities
    - Savings and credit
    - Livelihood trainings

Beekeeping:

Apiculture (Bee-keeping) is a non-land-based income generation activity, which focuses on providing the necessary assistance to the village people of Ghanpur, Talai etc. (where the project was implemented) in adopting bee keeping as a vocation.

Tailoring and Handicrafts:

A mode of empowering rural women through income generation via. tailoring, embroidery, painting etc. Special trainings on 'tailoring and handicrafts' are provided which gives an opportunity to the village women to be self- dependent and self-reliant.

RDI is currently running this program in 3 districts of Uttarakhand with 11 centers at Chakrata, Dehradun, Chamba, Thano, Dharkot (Tehri) etc.