This is a story of Laxmiben Ajitsinh Dabhi, who has turned into an entrepreneur. This 48-year-old Class VIII pass and mother of three from Chhipiyal village in Kheda’s Kathlal taluka has no land. Her primary income is from three buffaloes — only one of which gives 5-10 litres milk daily at any given point — and a sewing machine that brings in about Rs 100 daily. But with nimboli, Laxmiben has turned into a mini-rural entrepreneur — “community resource person”, in her words.
Laxmiben aggregates the nimboli that women in her village collect from neem trees, which flower towards April-end and start bearing fruits around mid-May.
Read more of this enterprising story in a report by Harish Damodaran published in The Indian Express....
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