The revival of millets in Odisha has instilled a sense of confidence among women groups, helping them to beat poverty and malnutrition. Odisha Millets Mission and Mission Shakti...
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Women-led farm initiatives
By using organic farming methods, developing connections with markets, generating income, and enhancing their own and their communities' quality of life, two women entrepreneurs...
Turkey Farming – An alternative livelihood opportunity for women
Women of South Paraganas district have successfully taken up turkey farming. This convergent model promoted by the local KVK has broken the barriers of development and unleashed...
Return to farming Embracing integration and technology
Starting as a hobbyist and evolving into an entrepreneurial farmer, Smt. Indumathi has come a long way. Defying advancing age, she has proved that farm incomes could be enhanced...
Integrated Farming System – Key to prosperity
Diversity and integrating various enterprises into a farming system helps in meeting multiple needs – food and nutritional security, incomes and optimal utilisation of resources....
Nila Garden: Passion leading to success
Fierce determination to pursue one’s passion can result in achieving spectacular success as an entrepreneur. This is a story of Ms. Subhadra Kumari, who nurtured her orchid...
Seed Custodians A women-led farm enterprise
With handholding and training support, women entrepreneurs in Maharashtra have developed confidence to provide quality goods and services. From an invisible contribution which...
Journey of becoming Agripreneurs – Challenges and way forward for women farmers
Promoting women led agricultural enterprises is no more a choice but a necessity for sustainable development. Ensuring women driven businesses in rural set-ups will not only...
Farm mechanisation driven by women farmers
Women can be empowered to handle farm operations as well as farm machinery with confidence and pride, if proper support systems are provided. With a little support from BAIF,...
A journey of FPC in promoting milk production
Diversification is a way forward for smallholder farm livelihoods caught in fragile eco systems. Diary husbandry is one of them. Diary farmers in Vidarbha have come together to...
Towards safe food production A journey of a collective
I, N. Keshavamurthy, have originally come from a farming family. I was running a factory for 30 years, earning good income, but owing to labor problem, work stress and health...
Rural women as enterpreneurs – Restoring food systems and creating markets
Vikalpini, a women’s network in Sri Lanka, through a continuous community engaging process, empowered women, socially and economically, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. The...