farmers
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Vaishnavi Gupta Jun 02 2020 - 2 min readCrofarm forayed into business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) space and has launched the platform Otipy, India's first social commerce model to connect consumers with farmers through resellers. India's fastest growing farm to fork agritech start-up Crofarm has raised Pre-Series A funding of $1 million led by Smile Group. Varun Khurana, Co-Founder & CEO, Crofram, said, “We are a technology-enabled ...
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Vaishnavi Gupta May 01 2020 - 4 min readWith millions of farmers across the country left in the lurch, owing to the lockdown, Ninjacart, India’s largest fresh produce supply chain company, has launched an initiative called ‘Harvest The Farms’ to help the farmers. Millions of tonnes of vegetables are rotting in the farms unharvested and through this initiative, farmers who are struggling to ...
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Vaishnavi Gupta Apr 29 2020 - 5 min readContributing about 15% to India’s GDP, the agricultural sector sustains almost half the population of the country. Interestingly, more than 265 million people in India are engaged in farming, which also makes it one of the largest employers in the country. More than 70% of rural India is employed in this space, running their ...
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Franchise India Bureau Dec 02 2017 - 1 min readWalmart Foundation declares to donate $2 million to non-profit consulting firm Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) to help small farmers in India diversify markets for their produce. The foundation said, the funding is aimed at implementation of Farmer Market Readiness Project in Andhra Pradesh providing financial support to ASI. "The goal is to improve the livelihoods ...