According to the 1991 census, location of villages and the difficult terrain, at least 72 per cent of the population belonged selling the produce in the haats makes for a more to the Scheduled Tribe social group. [...] To this end, LEAD at Krea University with The The Government along with the civil society Tribal Hermit to test a livelihoods model for groups and NGOs in the region continue to supporting Tribal enterprises to enhance their adopt various models including the creation of income through the digitisation of their supply Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in order chain.1 to enhance the collectivis. [...] by traders not ruled out) indicate that, in terms Further, the collectivisation feature of FPOs of value, tamarind and allied products account helps the farmers make use of the advantages for nearly 50 per cent of the turnover (non- of economies of scale and launch sustainable nationalised FPOs) of Bastar’s mandis (market), businesses of their own. [...] More than half of the women (54 per indicator of women’s empowerment quotient did cent) use smartphones and internet connection not find a significant difference from baseline seems to be indispensable, with 92 per cent to endline, where 26 out of 59 women in the of women accessing the internet through their baseline and 28 women in the endline reported phones (both smart and keypad phones). [...] In our study, the women who are part of the FPO intervention seem to travel more to the community centres present outside the village when compared to the period prior to the intervention.
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