Mithilesh K Jha

March 8, 2017

Memories of the Tasar Project

Scouting for locations across states to launch the Tasar Project, motivating farmer families to develop plantations, garnering funds from agencies, training farmers in scientific methods of tasar rearing, and marketing the collective produce were some of the slow and steady steps in the creation of an alternative livelihood for the villagers of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh