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The brand has a mission to create large scale wage opportunity for tribal producers of silk cocoons

Eco Tasar Silk Pvt Ltd was launched in 2007 by Khitish Pandya. The company manufactures sarees, stoles, and cushion covers made from Tasar silk. It claims to have impacted the lives of 1,000 women in Bihar’s textile belt – Bhagalpur.

A large number of women in Jharkhand’s Godda district have benefitted from a nutrition intervention programme since 2018. Now, it is getting further boost due to the state government’s Didi Badi Yojana, reports Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

When Kabita Singh decided to take up Tasar (also Tussar or Tassar) sericulture in 2014, she faced opposition from her husband and others in Shyamnagar village of West Bengal’s Jhargram district. The panchayat ostracised her because the work required to travel out of the village.

Kamla Devi is busy preparing 250gm-packets of oyster mushrooms at her home in Serengdih tribal hamlet of Naxal-affected Khunti district in Jharkhand. The packets of the much sought after mushrooms will sell for Rs50 each in Ranchi and Jamshedpur towns. Kamla, who lost her husband a few years back, is a mushroom entrepreneur, cultivating them in a corner of her house and earning enough to support her family.

Monika Sahu, devoted Cadre at Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and President of Gram Sangathan (village organisation) organised by Pradan, was once thought of as ‘a defective piece’ by her in-laws, due to her sickly constitution.

A look at how the evolution of organic farming in India is harming farmers by ‘deskilling’ them.

With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional tribal systems of medicine is increasingly under threat

The government says the new farm acts will be beneficial to small and marginal farmers. But, in reality, APMC mandis and MSP have offered protection to this category of farmers, who make up almost 85 per cent of the farming community in India.

Despite carrying out many farming activities, women lacked recognition. Coming together as a self-help group, they have found confidence to progress and use collective bargaining power to their advantage