About
A foundation grown from the shop floor and the field.
Registered in Maharashtra to serve farmers with technology, skills, markets, and trees — not slogans.
Who we are
Aadiyogi Foundation was established in 2024 in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad). We sit at the meeting point of manufacturing know-how and rural agriculture: implements that actually work in Marathwada soil, training that leads to jobs, and a plantation programme large enough to matter.
The organisation is registered with 12A / 12AB, CSR-1, FCRA, and NGO Darpan so donors, companies, and government partners can verify us through public records.
Leadership
Ashok Janardhan Argade
Founder Chairman · Born 10 September 1983, Aurangabad
Education began in Ahmednagar (SSC, 1998). An ITI Pattern Maker course in Aurangabad (2000) and an internship at Crompton Greaves led to a 100 sq ft mini pattern shop at C-75 MIDC Waluj — started with ₹1,500.
Vendor work for multinational plants produced hundreds of prototypes. The next chapter was agriculture: tractors, attachments, and farmer-facing technology. The foundation is the public-purpose extension of that path — rural development, food processing, and the one-crore tree pledge.