Rajesh Oza’s jamun processing startup Tribalveda has helped tribal girls of his village Bera earn 3 times extra.
Rajesh Oza confronted “a nasty spell” in 2016 when he attempted on the lookout for jobs in Mumbai. An schooling simplest till Magnificence 12 put a dampener at the alternatives. When Rajesh moved again to his village Bera, he concept the whole lot used to be misplaced. However actually, it used to be the beginning of a profitable trade he would construct that might move directly to empower 1,800 tribal girls.
Rajesh’s challenge ‘Tribalveda’ began in October 2021 and used to be born out of his aim to lend a hand the farmers in his village who confronted the force of getting to promote their produce within the few hours after harvest to forestall spoilage. Getting farmers to agree to enroll in fingers with him wasn’t the very best of duties. However Rajesh says the effects spoke for themselves.
“On their behalf, I took their produce, negotiated just right costs within the markets and gave them the earnings. The neighborhood started to consider I may just do what I mentioned,” he says. Rajesh’s emblem works with the farmers of Bera, serving to them to spot, harvest, gather, retailer, grade, kind, wash, procedure and package deal the goods which are then bought at marketplace costs.
The logo has a income of Rs 2 crores and Rajesh sees it simplest increasing within the coming years. However ahead of he tasted luck, right here’s what his adventure used to be like:
Edited via Padmashree Pande