Best Rural Entrepreneurs in India

 

Best Rural Entrepreneurs in India

India is a country of 1 Billion (100 Crore) population and almost 80% of Indian population lives in Rural India. There are several Rural India Entrepreneurs who have started their own Businesses out of scratch and add values in the life of millions of people.

According to SiliconIndia,

Mansukhbhai Jagani, Madanlal Kumawat, Mansukhbhai Patel, Chintakindi Mallesham and Mansukhbhai Prajapati are among Forbes's list of seven most powerful rural Indian entrepreneurs, whose "inventions are changing lives" of the people across the country.
IIM-Ahmedabad Professor and Founder of India's Honeybee Network, Anil Gupta, has selected the seven most powerful rural Indian entrepreneurs for a compilation in Forbes magazine…..

Here are the highlights of few great Indian rural entrepreneurs.

- Mansukhbhai Jagani developed a motorcycle-based tractor for India's poor farmers, which is both cost effective - costing roughly $318, and fuel efficient (it can plow an acre of land in 30 minutes with two liters of fuel).

- A farmer, Mansukhbhai Patel invented a cotton stripping machine that has significantly cut the cost of cotton farming and revolutionized India's cotton industry.
Patel who studied up to Class X, invented a cotton-stripping machine in 1991.

- Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a potter, invented a clay non-stick pan that costs Rs. 100 and a clay refrigerator that runs without electricity for those who cannot afford a fridge or their electricity and maintenance costs, Gupta said.

- Also on Gupta's list is Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade, who invented the HMT rice, a highly successful rice variety which yielded 80 percent more rice than the conventional variety.

- Chintakindi Mallesham, inventor of the Laxmi Asu Machine, "ignited a revolution in India's weaving community."
Mallesham's machine can make six saris worth of material in one day, and "no human effort is required beyond placing thread on the machine and removing the material after the process is complete."