BastaR se BazaaR tak

Industry: Agriculture
Headquarters: Lakhanpuri, Chhattisgarh
Cohort: 2020
Partner Since: 2020
Jobs Created: 40

Bastar se Bazaar Tak (meaning From Bastar to the Market) promotes custard apple and other forest produce, such as tamarind, jamun, amchoor, and herbal gulal. The Chhattisgarh- based company aims to provide additional income with employment opportunities to rural tribal forest-dwelling farmers through post-harvest management, value addition,and marketing of processed NTFP products.

The enterprise is trying to enhance livelihoods of local forest dwellers by reducing post-harvest losses and supplying high quality, unadulterated, processed forest produce to urban consumers at a fair price.

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About the Entrepreneurs

Upaya Entrepreneur Bios

Haresh Kashyap

FOUNDER

Haresh is a progressive farmer and has been doing farming practices since more than 30 years. Farmers’ in his village community regard him as a down to earth person and role model. He is responsible for planning and operations at Bastar se Bazaar tak.

Satendrasingh Lilhare

CO-FOUNDER

Satendra is a self-motivated, goal-oriented person with a zeal to live and work in remotest parts of the country. With more than three years of grassroots experience on farm & forest based value chain model, he is passionate about working with small & marginal farmers on enterprise based livelihood models.

He has also worked for more than seven years as a freelancer which includes liaison with government officials for welfare projects. He is an alumnus of Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Overall, he plays a managing and executing role at Bastar se Bazaar tak.