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Millets; Decline and revival in the hills.

As my project was primarily about increasing millet productivity, I was under the impression that millets were staple food crops which were fairly common in Uttarakhand and that my task was just to render assistance or actions that would further their availability within households. However, the situation was drastically different than what I had presumed. […]

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Understanding the PM-FME Scheme through Value Addition in Food Processing

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has introduced the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM-FME) Scheme under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan to strengthen India’s food processing sector at the grassroots level. The scheme aims to support micro food entrepreneurs by encouraging value addition, improving processing practices, reducing post-harvest losses, and enabling informal […]

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An Exposure Memoir

During my education and early career, I was introduced to the technical expertise and guiding principles behind project design and management. However, exposure to the development sector brought a set of unique challenges I had never faced before – whether it was regarding involving the community as a stakeholder or iterating at an unprecedented frequency […]

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Selfish Interests Behind Selfless Causes

For any fellow, the first visit to the project village is always filled with excitement and trepidation. Equipped with a basic framework regarding social development, a desire to create positive social change and an unknown excitement, fellows explored the region of their workspace, their ‘Karma Bhoomi.’ Being no different, as I stepped foot into the […]

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House of a Tribal: Closed or Open?

Mrs. Lalita Bhangre who is the villager from Gram Panchayat Khadkhad. She said, “Currently I am engaged in threshing of paddy cultivation. After some days, I am going to a different city to do labour work for sugarcane cutting with my family but my Mother-in-Law will stay here as she is very old and can’t […]