Gomukh Centre for Rural Sustainability (GORUS) India, is a platform for thinking, research, exchange, and dissemination of sustainable ideas and appropriate technologies in rural India.

• Develop a ‘sustainable water-use model’ for rural India by integrating traditional water management systems with appropriate contemporary technologies.
• Serve as a forum for farmers, rural entrepreneurs, and forest dwellers for freely accessing, contributing to, and disseminating relevant knowledge so as to progress     towards a sustainable growth path.
• Advocate sustainable use of natural resources and serve as a repository of documents, cases, action-research and treatises on water harvesting and use, biodiversity conservation, organic farming, and renewable energy.
• Rejuvenate traditional organic farming through indigenous seed varieties,
locally adapted animal breeds, and organic soil and pest management.
• Prevent non-sustainable exploitation of natural resources, perverse use
of chemical     fertilizers and pesticides, and inappropriate use of genetically modified seeds in     agriculture.
• Ecological restoration through soil, water, and biodiversity conservation,
     including     revival and enrichment of sacred groves.
• Explore appropriate technologies for small-scale, renewable energy generation.

Seeds are sacred, nobody owns them, and they belong to everyone.
Humans as well as all animals depend on seeds for survival. Locally adapted seeds offer the best resistance against pests and diseases, besides providing high quality nutrition. Such seeds should be carefully selected, multiplied, and freely shared among all farmers.

Animals are an essential part of agriculture.
Cattle and other animals are an important source of organic nutrients, draft-power, and transport for traditional agriculture, besides being a source of milk and meat for humans.

Insects fungi and micro-organisms are an integral part of nature and agriculture.
Their adverse impact on agricultural crops can be minimized only by developing a better understanding of their life cycle and by understanding the ways in which nature herself controls and restricts them. In traditional Indian farming, extermination of pests was neither practiced nor felt to be necessary for successful crop production.