Reema Sathe (born 5 September) is an Indian social activist and entrepreneur. She created a food company that shares its profits more fairly with small farmers. She was awarded the

Nari Shakti Puraskar The Nari Shakti Puraskar is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment. It is the highest civilian hono ...

for her work in 2017. She has been Featured by th
Forbes Magazine
for her work in 2018 and by the World Bank Group an
United Nations
Development Program in 2019.

Life

Sathe was trained as a chemical engineer. She started her social enterprise, "Happy Roots" after working for seven years in the food and beverage industry. She left her steady job in 2014 to become self employed. Sathe was deeply moved by the challenges small and marginal farmers afec, especially women, while she was working for a new company named "Krishi Star" as a General Manager, Marketing. Sathe has built farm-to-market supply chains both Nationally and Internationally focusing on indigenous cereals and grains, indigenous variety of livestock benefiting more than 30,000 small & marginal farmers across four states in India. Her company incentivised farmers for producing high quality, indigenous grains by paying them 50% more than usual market price and creating healthy, nutritious snack food from these grains which would appeal to urban customers. In the case of women farmers in Ahmednagar their income has tripled as they grew

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for Sathe's business. Her product range includes crackers and cookies made from wheat, buckwheat, Amarnath seeds, Flax seed and barley. Sathe gave a TEDx talk at "Serene Meadows" in July 2020 on the power of small changes.

Awards

Sathe was awarded "Business Today"’s "Most Powerful Women" Award in 2017.
Digital Women Awards
powered by SheThePeople, Facebook, Google, 2017 Sathe was invited to the Presidential Palace (

Rashtrapati Bhavan The Rashtrapati Bhavan (, rāsh-truh-puh-ti bha-vun; ; originally Viceroy's House and later Government House) is the official residence of the President of India at the western end of Rajpath, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, India. Rashtrapati Bh ...

) in New Delhi on

International Women’s Day International Women's Day (IWD) is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against wom ...

in 2017 to be awarded the 2016

. She was one of 27 women who were recognised and five organisations were also honoured.

References

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