Rural Immersion project : Vrutti Foundation
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Date
2020
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MICA
Abstract
Vrutti is a non-profit social enterprise, founded in 2002 and is committed to find solutions to end poverty, marginalisation and create wealth and build resilience for small producers and farmers. It follows a holistic and long term approach (including financing, distribution, training and go to market support) helps small producers grow their way out of poverty and uncertainty and to be 3 times more profitable and to build lasting pathways to prosperity. It offers a complete bundle of services, using a market-based model that helps our organization remain financially sustainable and expand to reach more and more farmers every year. It serves smallholder farmers/ small producers, with a Farmers First approach. Services include capacity building, institutional building, financial & market linkages, training on good practices in agriculture, soil, water and livestock. Vrutti encourages farmers to produce and move towards responsible farming ,using sustainable inputs and practices and therefore ‘model’ its approaches, ‘cost’ them, and ‘integrate’ them to be adopted by communities or market or public policy.
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Area and state: Karnataka and Maharashtra
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Vrutti's relief operations and field stories during the lockdown and thereafter