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We all want you to meet Rekha didi, our inspiration behind FarmDidi. 2019 is when we first met her to understand if loans would help rural women become an entrepreneur But Rekha didi made a valid point -‘Even if you get them loan today it won’t be sustainable, what they need is better reach and better market access’ and that hit us hard. She is one of the most ambitious and competent women we know! Her dream is to see every women from her village to get respectable incomes from their hard work! She is a born leader! She wonderfully...

The image of a rural woman in our minds is that of a weak lady in her tethered clothes where she holds her child in one arm and an earthen pot in the other. We are often so hypnotized by the urban dream that anything rural is considered to be underdeveloped, deprived, and savage. However, as you walk along with the mighty greenery of the Western Ghats of India, you observe another picture that transcends conventional imagination. You find small patches of fields that are operated by women farmers. These are well-managed fields that are plowed with the knowledge that...