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Innovative Indian enterprises

28. Sep 2016

The Connect to Grow programme creates partnerships between Indian enterprises and enterprises across South Asia and Africa, to improve people’s health and agricultural prospects. This month we are sharing some of the innovative Indian enterprises already on the Connect to Grow marketplace.

To connect with these businesses today signup or login to the Connect to Grow marketplace. To find out more about Connect to Grow visit Connecttogrow.org, or read more about why the programme is designed around sharing Indian innovations here. 

 

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Company: Greenway

Impact sector: Health

Greenway has developed  Smart and Jumbo stoves designed to decrease smoke by 70% and improve the health of women still cooking on traditional mud stoves. 

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Company: Bibliant

Impact sector: Health

Bibliant provide a candy as an efficient and cost effective way of delivering nutrition to people around the world, especially in remote regions. 

aakar

Company: Aakar

Impact sector: Health

Aakar enables women to produce and distribute affordable, high-quality, 100% compostable sanitary napkins within their communities while simultaneously raising awareness and sensitization of menstrual hygiene management.  Find out more about Aakar in our recent interview with Founder and Managing Director Jaydeep Mandal.

happy-hens

Company: Happy Hens

Impact sector: Agriculture

Happy hens produce and  market free range eggs from naturally raised hens. They developed a successful model in rearing  flocks in natural free range standards, feeding them greens, grains & bugs for the hens to lay tasty eggs.
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Company: Ergos

Impact sector: Agriculture

Ergos focus on farm income optimisation at farm-gate. They have been the first in the agriculture extension space to provide low cost micro warehousing allowing farmers to self-own their stock.
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Company: Science for Society

Impact sector: Agriculture

Science for Society develop innovations at different points in the food value chain: from developing  processing technology, to manufacturing processing machines and selling of processed food. Some of their innovations include solar vegetable driers and low cost cassava processing machines.

 

To connect with these businesses today signup or login to the Connect to Grow marketplace. To find out more about Connect to Grow visit Connecttogrow.org, or read more about why the programme is designed around sharing Indian innovations here.