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Varun Raheja designed foldable, portable, and scalable solar dryers to help small and marginal farmers derive better income from excess produce, which would otherwise be sold at throwaway prices.

Uttarakhand’s Nidhi Pant, along with her six college friends, launched an agri-tech startup to help women from low-income, climate-threatened communities sell produce dismissed as spoilt by converting farm losses to value-added products.