Years again, Manjari Sharma spent 15 days within the distant villages of Bihar as a part of volunteer work. It was then that she witnessed the talents of the ladies there. Aside from managing all of the family chores, they discovered time to start out a small-scale meals enterprise of pickles, papads, chutneys and extra.

Manjari, an IIM graduate and a company worker, determined to give up her job and assist these ladies scale up their companies and supply monetary independence to them. She began a for-profit social enterprise referred to as ‘Farm Didi’ to empower rural ladies.

Manjari’s function right here was to make them conscious of the meals security parts and enterprise points. She helps them to market the merchandise all around the world and unfold the phrase about preservative-free regionally made meals gadgets.

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Farm Didi has to date helped 1,080 ladies from 40 villages and plans to succeed in one million of them. Round 100 self-help teams of ladies are already a part of this initiative and the ladies earn an honest earnings.

“To extend earnings for marginal farmers, we have to convey them collectively. We additionally want to extend their function in meals processing. Proper now the farmers are principally producers, but when meals processing begins occurring in villages, farmers will get a better share of earnings,” stated the social entrepreneur to LEF Journal.

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Edited by Yoshita Rao