From the government’s efforts in incubating deeptech startups in the country to Dassault’s executives’ focus on private capital and policy in building startups, today’s roundup captures key shifts shaping business and innovation.Featured stories In Erode’s hills, a solar mill is helping tribal farmers reclaim milletIn hilly regions in Tamil Nadu where electricity is scarce, and millets have long been grown only for survival, a solar-powered mill is reshaping how tribal farmers earn from their crops.On most days, sunlight is the only reliable power source in Kunri, a small tribal village near Kadambur in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district. In the hilly landscape close to the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, electricity has long been patchy or doesn’t exist at all. For generations, tribal families consumed mostly millets, which grew well on these terrains, but never had a chance to make a livelihood out of these crops.A Rs 23.5-lakh solar-powered millet processing centre, launched in December in Kunri, is changing how tribal farmers engage with their harvests. Designed and set up by Oscar Solar Pump, the unit has a metal container fitted with solar panels and machines that clean, destone, dry, and mill ragi and thinai. This has allowed the farmers to process millets… Read MoreYourStory RSS Feed
