Why Young Indians Are Leaving Corporate Jobs to Join Cooperatives

Why Young Indians Are Leaving Corporate Jobs to Join Cooperatives

Last monsoon, Priya Sharma, a 28-year-old MBA graduate from Pune, walked out of a Rs 18-lakh-per-year consulting job at a Big Four firm. Three months later, she was standing ankle-deep in a turmeric field in Sangli district, Maharashtra, helping onboard 340 smallholder farmers onto a cooperative’s new digital procurement platform. She had taken a 40% … Read more