The Chhattisgarh Cooperative That Pays Adivasi Farmers 3X Market Rate for Mahua and Tendu Leaves
In the dense sal forests outside Ambikapur, Surguja district, a 42-year-old Oraon tribal woman named Kamla Kerketta earned ₹38,000 last season selling dried mahua flowers — roughly three times what the local trader at the weekly haat would have offered her. The difference wasn’t luck. It was structure. A cooperative structure, built over years, that … Read more