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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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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