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Transform Rural India
Annual Report 2022-23

In the 2022 Global Index of provide a strong foundation for promote digital-first • Incentivising the • Several Mini and Nano also leverage e-commerce High Income Natural Farming produce attractive crops for Objectives of graduating
SDGs, India ranked 121 out of successful initiatives. manufacturing and services establishment of dynamic Enterprises (MNEs) are platforms. Clusters markets. towards High Income Natural
163 countries, showing a growth. Traditional models of rural industries such as supported by initiatives like farming
decline from its previous TRI is committing itself to workforce diversification into agro-based, forest-based, MGNREGS, NRLM, Kaushal • Skill hubs in industrial Rising population has led to the Natural and Circular farming
rankings of 117 in 2020 and 120 two departure-from- large-scale manufacturing may mineral-based, and textile Bharat, and RSETI, along clusters will form a big part modernisation of agriculture, can enhance resource capacity, • Increased and diversified
in 2021. Recent articles in business-as-usual ideas: not be effective anymore due industries and modern with public financing. Village of the job opportunities in which has successfully build healthy soils, and reduce food production, significantly
Lancet and NITI Aayog High Income Natural to technological small-scale industries can industries like processing the service sector, spanning provided food for the growing market risks. This approach is enhanced Income
highlight that India is off-track Farming and Rural advancements. Instead, the generate local employment cereals and pulses, areas like food service, billions and prevented a based on diversified cropping • Restoration of soil health,
on at least 19 Sustainable focus is on harnessing rural and investment and further manufacture of oils and logistics, and retail. Malthusian food crisis. systems, including animals, and including the capture of
Development Indicators, with Manufacturing and Service competitive advantages in the profits that can be paper, handicrafts, etc. can However, this modernisation provides stability to income. atmospheric carbon (C) to
more indicators unlikely to be Growth, which serve as the bio-economy and leveraging reinvested. has also resulted in significant Circular farming strengthens mitigate climate change
achieved by 2030. These key bets for transformative digitisation to eliminate environmental challenges. diverse sources of income, like
interlinked off-track indicators impact. economic barriers. Disrupting Agriculture is a major crops, animals, and market • Reversal of biodiversity loss
have consequences for social, the rural economy while We intend to develop a business prototype, ground-up in 10 “large villages in a physical setting contributor to greenhouse gas access. With markets at farm and local ecosystem
economic, and environmental emphasising agricultural as Rural Economic Zones. emissions, with pesticides, responding to safely and levels
sustainability. growth is crucial for facilitating Archetype 1 Archetype 2 Archetype 3 fertilizers, machinery, and responsibly produced crops,
the transition of labour from Makers Home Genesis Point Service Boost livestock accounting for 18% of there is an opportunity for • Maintain/ recycle scarce
The Prime Minister's vision of “New Rural” as Engine of agriculture to secondary and all emissions. It has also led to smallholders to adjust their farm resources
India becoming a high-income Growth | Establish Growth tertiary sectors, leading to Offers specialised Offers physical Offers access to tools, toxicities in food, water, soil, production system and
country by 2047 necessitates Cluster higher productivity and income. machinery and services for infrastructure and service storage and other things that and air, and the loss of half of respond to emerging
significant growth, raising per The State Economy relies improving and expanding support for the production enable villagers to provide the world's agricultural topsoil opportunities.
capita income from the current heavily on agriculture, with a Elements of Growth Cluster economic activities related and distribution of business general and specialised in the past 150 years. The
$2000 to $21,000 and creating marginal growth in the service for Farm-allied and Non-Farm to traditional arts, craft, inputs considered the first services for other villagers agricultural sector is a primary
a $37 trillion economy. sector and a declining small and manufacturing. point of value chains. and businesses. driver of biodiversity loss,
Currently, 800 million people in industry. Jobless growth and a • Spatial and demographic endangering 86% of species at
India receive free rations. Our decline in worker productivity trends indicate that Large Archetype 4 Archetype 5 Archetype 6 risk of extinction. Additionally,
focus is on transforming this highlight the inability of the Villages with significant agriculture consumes 69% of
population into a productive industrial and service sectors to urban occupational Village Goods Market Stand Fulfilment Center the planet's fresh water. The
resource, particularly in rural generate employment. tendencies will significantly government's focus on natural
areas where a significant Achieving a ten-fold increase in increase. Almost a quarter Offers produces, products, Offers business-to- consumer Offers specialised services farming is crucial for achieving
portion resides. To achieve per capita income to $21,000 Indian Rural population is and material goods for the and business-to-business and warehouse capabilities net-zero commitments.
sustained double-digit growth requires significant growth in going to be in this transition consumption of local consumption point for the for the aggregation and However, farming remains the
and reduce inequality, we need agriculture (4x), industry (14x), space, and this will be a villagers and supporting commercialisation distribution of goods to primary livelihood for four-fifths
fail-safe social protection and services (10x), natural lever of institutions. of diverse products. match institutional of Indians, posing challenges
measures and a high-growth necessitating a shift in the manufacturing and service procurements. for natural farming due to low
ecosystem in rural villages. This traditional economic growth sector growth in India. margins and high variation. In
involves shifting the workforce paradigm. Rural prosperity addition, throughout history,
to high-yield agriculture, depends on the growth of • The primary sector, including In each location we will seek to • Genesis Points (Opportunity • Service Boost (Value-Add to agricultural revolutions have
developing a new model for worker productivity, as high-value agriculture, develop: Expansion and Value Growth Facility Local Produce): Rice aimed at generating surplus,
rural manufacturing and cultivators earn 2.27 times the forestry, textiles have by Introducing New Goods Mill, Dal Mill, Oil Expeller, stability, and growth, which
services, and implementing a income of laborers, while near-rural linkages to • Anchor: Robust revenue and Services): Honey Processing, Bamboo have played a pivotal role in
"new deal" for double-digit non-farm workers earn more secondary and tertiary generator, fail-safe business Curing and Processing. societal transformations and
growth. The off-track indicators than twice the income of sectors, such as food, like Bio-energy and - Rural Primary Production Organised in PPP Mode or urbanisation.
are concentrated in TRI's focus cultivators. bio-based value chains Bio-fertiliser Production System (Farm, Livestock, FPO/PG Mode with service
states of Madhya Pradesh, including tourism, carbon • Connect Hive: Employability, Forest): Nursery, Spawn fee. Even the current farming
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar The "New Rural" approach sequestration and water. Placement and filled mushroom bags, Fish practices are risky for
Pradesh, and Bihar. On the prioritises the expansion of Business models related to Entrepreneurship Capacity seed production • Fulfilment Centre: smallholders, relying on
positive side, internet access, local opportunities for food, bio-based activities, and Linkage - Nano and Mini Rural Packaging, Branding, Quality external inputs and
bank accounts, full vaccination value-growth and increased and ecosystem services Enterprises: On-hire infra control, Certifications monotonous crops. They are
coverage, improved sanitation, productivity across primary, connected to the availability • Makers Home (Common for construction material • Village Goods and mostly copied from irrigated
multidimensional poverty secondary, and tertiary sectors. of renewable resources Service Centres): production, Lease-rental Employment Zone: areas with different resources.
reduction, access to electricity, It aims to leverage local create comparative Pay-per-use facility based on of infra Garment/ Apparel Mini With climate change and
and progress in reducing resources, boost local advantages for the “rural context specific presence of Factory, Rural BPO shifting consumer demands,
under-5 and neonatal mortality consumption and demand, and sector”. workers in Metallurgy, - Logistics and Service Hub smallholders must adopt more
Pottery, Packaging resilient cropping systems and

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