Greater Malabar Initiative (GMI)
GMI focuses on bringing malabar region into tourism map with home stay, etc. We visited Rubber plantations near Kozhikode in the backdrop of beautiful Wayanad foothills. Rubber plantations also provides plenty of opportunities for automating the cutting, collection processes. It is always good moving up in the value chain, as it protects the farmers from price volatility. There are entrepreneurial opportunists in value addition of rubber. It’s important to create a local investor community that would support these entrepreneurs as they can connect with the problems better. Good discussions with few HNIs in Kozhikode around this.
NSRCEL IIMB. Heart warming interacting/listening to 62 amazing women entrepreneurs at Vizag. From PhD to diplomas, 21 to 55 years, swanky USA accent to pitching in Telugu, humble background to HNI families, home makers to scientists, millet food to machine learning, from all over 2 states. Few of them selected to be part of 100 WE from rest of India. More to women power! Nobody can set expiry dates of women dream. Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam #WomenStartupProgramme2018
