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Helping Custard Apple Farmers Earn More For Their Fruit
Founded by Rakesh and Namita in 2014, GramShree’s mission is to establish an innovative marketing system to market the produce of poor, rural families in India, empowering them by giving them direct access to markets that will enable them to realize the optimum price for their products
Two Brothers On A Mission To Create Sustainable Livelihoods
Vinod and his brother Sushil Taank decided to take the idea to the next level. They began working full time to get their social enterprise off the ground, researching, pilot testing and developing the business model. In 2016, they incorporated their company, TaankBrothers Ventures Pvt.Ltd
Turning A Once Discarded Fruit By-Product Into A Lucrative Income Stream
By teaching farmers and rural women to collect the small fruits, and then selling them to international pharmaceutical companies, Aneel’s company YasasreeViroha Impex is able to drastically increase the incomes for these small-holder farmers and women workers
Bringing Village Fresh Produce to Urban India
The Upaya team sat down with Selvakumar, one of 11 agripreneurs participanting in Upaya’s 2018 Agribusiness Accelerator Program, to learn more about Laymen Agro Ventures and the company he started, VillFresh
Happy Farmers, Happy Consumers
Reema launched Happy Roots in 2016, a snack food company that aims to bring healthy snacks to socially-conscious consumers