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ABOUT US International Development Enterprises (India), hereafter referred to as IDEIndia, is a not-for-profit company working in India, focusing on enhancing the livelihood of small and marginal farmers in agriculture & allied sectors and enable prosperity. IDE-India is also a member of the ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) of the United Nations. IDE-India stimulates a sustainable and free market by creating demand for affordable technologies and solutions and ensuring a sustainable supply chain. Working across multiple states in India, IDE-India has reached out to over 1.4 million smallholder farm families. Making small-plot agriculture more remunerative and thereby reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition remains IDE-India's guiding philosophy. IDE-India's technology is designed to be one-fifth the cost of its competitors, is scaled down to fit one-tenth hectare plots, and is able to generate sales at unsubsidized market prices. IDE-India's

technologies are low cost, offer a high return on investment for farmers, are simple and inexpensive to maintain, and are manually powered. IDE-India's focus on promoting high value, innovative varieties of crops that are low maintenance will contribute to increasing the productivity and incomes of small and marginal farmers.

IDE (INDIA) VISION

To reduce income poverty, hunger and malnutrition among the rural poor.

IDE (INDIA) MISSION

The organisation works with the mission to improve equitably the social, economic and environmental conditions of families in need with special emphasis on the rural poor, by identifying, developing and marketing affordable, appropriate and environmentally sustainable solutions through market forces.

IDE (INDIA) GOAL

To enable prosperity in the lives of 5 million small and marginal farm families by 2030. 7


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