About LEAP

PRADAN is happy to announce "LEAP - Livelihoods Enhancement through market Access and women emPowerment", a two-year project supported by a philanthropic grant from the Walmart Foundation that aims to impact lives and livelihoods of 45,000 small holder women farmers (population of about 225,000 people), across the states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal in India. About 70 per cent of these target communities would be from the indigenous communities, recognised as Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) communities and the remaining would be from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.

Registered FPOs

Mahila Farmer Producer Company Ltd
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Ranibandh Mahila Producer Company Ltd
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AAMON Mahila Chasi Producer Company Ltd.
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Banspal Farmers Producer Company Ltd.
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Field Stories

December 19, 2022

Grains of Success
by Madhura Kanjilal, Kharika Mathani, West Bengal

December 16, 2022

Coming Together Helps
by Kamal Lochan Behera, Balliguda

November 18, 2022

Lalita Converts Dreams into Realities
by Akanksha Mishra, Peterbar, Jharkhand

August 19, 2022

From Collecting Forest Produce to Collective Farming
by Suman Gayen, Baghmundi, West Bengal

Amidst the lush green forest in the foothills of Ajodhya Hill range lies a small village called Chirugora. The village has 121 households with a total population of 795 - 391 women and 404 men. Chirugora alias Chirudi comes under Baghmundi block of Purulia district, West Bengal.
August 19, 2022

The making of a sustainable FPO
by Amit Prasad Dash, Rayagada

“तोरपा FPO महिला किसान के विकास के लिए उत्क्रिस्ट कार्य किया है एवं आजकल किसानो को उचित मूल्य पर कृषि इनपुट सुनिश्चित करवाने एवं उनके फसल उद्पाद को बाज़ार व्यवस्था करवाने में FPO का सराहनीय योगदान रहा है |”   जीतेन्द्र मिन्ज, प्रखंड सहकारिता पदाधिकारी , तोरपा
July 18, 2022

Muni’s Quantum LEAP
by Amit Prasad Dash, Rayagada

One room, seven members in that – sleeping, eating, chatting – all there. Eating was less, especially during the months when their own crops would finish and there won’t be enough money to buy food. Muni Heprika, a woman belonging to the Kandha tribe from Karagadi village of Kolnara block in Rayagada district of Odisha, was brought up like this.

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