tribal farmers

Meet five extraordinary changemakers transforming Indian agriculture with bold ideas, indigenous wisdom, and innovations that are quietly reshaping the way India farms, eats, and thrives. This September, Optum Presents The Better India Showcase, supported by the M3M Foundation, is honouring their impact.

Farmers and members of rural tribal communities are often swindled by corporations as they are unaware of their legal rights. Three farmers who underwent the same ordeal decided to fight back, and managed to get their rightful property back.

Reema Sathe founded Happy Roots, a food company that manufactures healthy, and preservative-free snack food using local ingredients, with raw material sourced from small and tribal farmers.