Manjari Corner
Manjari Foundation honored with the Award for outstanding contribution to social consciousness at the prestigious World CSR Congress 2025. Manjari has been honored with the prestigious award of 'Asia's Most Trusted NGO to Work With' at the Asia Pacific Future Leadership Skills 2025. A 1-day exposure visit to the Agriculture Science Congress 2025 at G.B. Pant Agricultural University, Pantnagar was organized for 50 farmers from Scheduled Tribes where they received training on goat farming and input support. Two of our Community Resource Persons from Dholpur conducted garlic pickle training at a Rajeevika unit in Rajsamand, as part of our collaboration with Axis Bank Foundation.

Mushroom

An Alternate Source of Livelihood

As we know, Mushrooms are a rich source of nutrition and at the same time, an economically viable livelihood option for women farmers.

We are promoting mushroom cultivation with women farmers in Uttarakhand where the climatic conditions are ideal.

Our interventions include training and capacity building of farmers, facilitating adequate input supplies, and market linkages as well. Our women farmers are producing oyster, button, and milky mushroom varieties.

Interventions

Capacity Building and Technical Services

Capacity building of farmers on production systems (composting, spawning, casting, and cropping), and management, require resources. We offer support in:

  • Cultivation methods and stages of mushroom production
  • Seeding the beds with spawn
  • Maintaining optimal temperature, moisture, hygiene
  • Adding water to the substrate to raise the moisture

Value Addition and Product Development

Harvesting, processing, packaging, and marketing of the mushrooms

  • Timing of harvest and protocols
  • Packaging of mushrooms
  • Marketing and forward linkages

Linking with The Market

Post-production management and dissemination of learning with larger community and stakeholders

  • Cleaning the shed and starting the production cycle again
  • Awareness of uses of mushrooms
  • Nutrient value - low in calories, high protein and fiber content
  • Consultation and sharing of learnings

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'Manjari’ literally translates to “seed of Tulsi”, a sacred Indian plant. When women mobilise themselves to form institutions, they are empowered to sow their own ‘seeds of change’.