SHDA’s exertion emphases to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those aimed at eliminating hunger and poverty, encouraging economic growth, and promoting accountable consumption and production practices.

SHDA improves the livelihoods for vulnerable groups, particularly small and marginal farmers and women farmers, who make up the majority of the farming community. Scientific packages of practices and climate-resilient strategies can support sustainable livelihoods, which can improve food, income and nutritional security.

Ourfoundation is a vigorous, adaptable livelihood of marginalized communities that can recover from shocks and stresses. The basic pillars of resilient livelihood are diversification of income resources, adaptability, sustainable practices, community support and access to basic resources. SHDA focuses on developing and promoting scientific packages of practices and high yielding varieties of crops introduced and released by by ICAR institutes and state agricultural universities.

• Improving livelihood status of small and marginal and women farmers through integrated development of vegetable crops
• Improving livelihood status of small and marginal farmers through olericultural interventions.
• Improving livelihood status of small and marginal farmers through olericultural interventions.
• Improving livelihood status of small and marginal farmers and women through olericultural interventions and spices cultivation.
• Turmeric cultivation and value chain development
• Delivering Genetic Gains in Farmers' Fields /Cereal (Paddy) Seed Systems
• Increasing productivity of rice and pulses based cropping system and farmers income in Odisha
• Ensuring nutritional food security through zinc biofortified wheat