Jaideep Hardikar is a Nagpur-based independent journalist, a Roving Reporter with the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), and author of ‘A Village Awaits Doomsday’ and ‘Ramrao - The Story of India’s Farm Crisis’. He is also a visiting faculty at Krea University.

Ground Reports30 Jul 2026

• Growing Rapidly, Farmer Producer Units Now Have A Capital Problem

  A women-led farmer producer company in Maharashtra’s drought-prone Dharashiv district reveals both the promise and the contradictions of India's ambitious attempt to turn poor rural women into agri entrepreneurs

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