CEO Manikstu Agro received Young women achievers award for odisha state.
26 Jul 2020
A Business Advisor, Entrepreneur, and Coachby Profession Jayanti is a dynamic Expert with ability to transform, innovateand deliver strong financial returns. Post Graduate in Business management& Masters in psychotherapy with 15 years of experience into diverse fieldsprimarily banking & consulting. Manikstu Agro Pvt Ltd is a socialenterprise with a vision to change the face of agribusiness to profitable andenterprising by end to end intervention and integrating animal husbandry(specialized on Goats)with scientific rearing, breeding and market linkmethodologies while creating micro-entrepreneurs.
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25 Jul 2020
Manikstu Agro has been awarded as 40 start up under 40 byEden. CEO Jayanti Mahapatra receiving the award from AshwinShanghi.
25 Jul 2020
Jayanti Mahapatra, CEO Manikstu Agro receivedEmerging Women Entrepreneur Award from Dibya Sahankar Mishra, MoS Energy, MSMEawarded by Startup Odisha.
25 Jul 2020
Jayanti Mahapatra, a young entrepreneur inIndia, was taken aback by the extreme poverty she witnessed during a visit toKalahandi, a district located in western Odisha. She saw that many of thevillagers had to migrate to larger cities in seek of work as day laborers orconstruction workers. Jayanti learned that, while many rural families keptgoats, the practice was not not earning them enough money to become asustainable livelihood. In fact, many people in the villages she visited didnot believe farming could be a viable source of income by itself. She was spiredto find a way to create local jobs for the people in Kalahandi and saw goatfarming as a prime opportunity.
My husband and I were always passionate aboutagriculture, Jayanti told edexlive.com. We had visited a lot of high-techfarms,agro companies, dairies, poultries and other agri-ventures and wondered why wecould not do something similar in Odisha.
In 2015 Jayanti started her business,Manikstu Agro with the mission of changing the landscape of goat farming inOdisha. Through its state-of-the-art goat farm, the company hopes to raiseawareness and spread information on the practices and upkeep of sustainablegoat farming and breeding.
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25 Jul 2020
Considered one of the most backward districts of Odisha, Kalahandihas been witness to drought, persistent crop failure and migration in search ofwork. A young entrepreneur is out to bring about change by promoting self-reliancein farming through her start-up, Manikstu Agro. The venture, launched threeyears ago by Jayanti Mahapatra, has opened up avenues for horticulture andgoatery in the district. When I first visited Kalahandi after I decided to takea break from my career, I realised the economic disparity that existed here.
There warehouses without electricity, a low literacy rate, aper capita income as low as Rs 15,000 per annum and much more. My husband and Iwere always passionate about agriculture and we had visited a lot of high-techfarms, agro companies, dairies, poultries and other agri-ventures and wonderedwhy we couldn’t dosomething similar in Odisha. This is why we started Manikstuin Kalahandi,” shesays. Manikstu, meaning blessing in the lap of GoddessManikeshwari, was registered in 2015.
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24 Jul 2020