Brief explanation on the activities of ISIK under “Happy Village” projects, are as below:

1. As a part of “Crop Management” system, organizing the farmer training on growing, harvesting and drying techniques that will increase raw material quality,
2. Guiding, providing and control of its farmers on the organic inputs to be used in accordance with the treatment schedule,
3. Consulting the farmers by company Agronomists throughout the year,
4. Performing necessary activities to improve the socio-economic structure of those villages, i.e., the needs and requirements of the children at school, sports, clubs and etc. 

ISIK tries to get national and international funds to perform all these activities, like an EC funded project, namely “SMAP-Promoting Sustainable Use of Agricultural Land Through the Introduction of Organic Farming Methods", under which following activities are carried out:

• 476 farmers have been trained with an average of 7,33 hours;
• Agronomists traveled 58,300 kms for the training and consultancy to the farmers, with a total of  392,5 days;
• By this project, the total number of farmers and field area have been increased by 66 and 214%, respectively.

Some of the titles from the training subjects: 

• Organic Agriculture
• Biodynamic agriculture and compost preparation
• Developments in organic agriculture
• New regulations on organic
• Application of biodynamic preparations
• Discussions on farmer problems and solutions
• Organic fig growing and harvesting
• Aflatoxine
• Organic apple, sour cherry and plum growing
• Organic rice growing
• Organic viniculture and problems related to mould and yeast growth at the vineyards

Trainers: 

• Dr. Obermaier – GERMANY 
• Prof.Dr. Uygun Aksoy – Aegean University Agricultural Department 
• Prof.Dr.Ufuk Ilter – Aegean University Agricultural Department
• Prof.Dr.Ahmet Altýndisli – ETO (Ecological Agricultural Organization in Turkey
• Nazif Sahin – Fig Research Institute – Erbeyli
• Hilmi Kocatas - Fig Research Institute – Erbeyli
• Helmy Abouleish – Sekem / EGYPT 
• Klaus Merckens – EBDA 
• Ranko Tadic – ABM
• Nevzat Pinarer – MARA
• Reto Ingold – Vita Terra / TUNUS 
• Guy Rilov – IBDAA
• Manolis Kabourakis – NAGREF / GAEG

ISIK believes that the problem solving starts by defining source of it. By the help of internal and external sources and funds, like SMAP, company carries out its activities to increase the number of “Happy Villages”, spreading the organic agriculture and the training of the farmers, both organic and conventional, willing to take a part in the training although they are not included in ISIK’s organic projects, yet.