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The Kudumbashree is acceptable to rotation retired K-INAM, a unified, premium agri-food marque of the mission, this week.
K-INAM is conceived arsenic an involution to alteration women-led grassroots enterprises into technology-enabled, market-ready, and globally competitory nutrient businesses.
Anchored nether the Kudumbashree Technology Advancement Programme (KTAP), K-INAM represents a displacement from accepted micro-production models towards technological processing, standardised prime systems, and organised marketplace integration.
The programme is designed to guarantee that precocious nutrient and agri-processing technologies developed by premier nationalist probe institutions scope agrarian women who tin person subject into sustainable livelihoods.
Through KTAP, Kudumbashree has acquired licensed validated nutrient technologies from institutions specified arsenic CSIR laboratories, ICAR institutes, NIFTEM, and nationalist universities and embedded them wrong women-led associated liability groups (JLGs), shaper groups, and endeavor clusters crossed Kerala.
These technologies screen a wide spectrum of value-added products, including functional foods, nutrition-focussed mixes, processed fruits and vegetables, climate-resilient staples, and health-oriented snacks.
Each merchandise nether K-INAM is developed utilizing standardised protocols that guarantee nutrient safety, nutritional integrity, and support stableness — aligned with FSSAI norms and scalable for home and export markets.
Women entrepreneurs are trained to run modern processing methods, follow bully manufacturing practices, support hygiene and traceability standards, and follow modern packaging and labelling systems. This enables the Kudumbashree enterprises to determination up the worth concatenation — from informal accumulation to formal, compliant, and competitory agri-food manufacturing.
K-INAM ensures amended prices, income stability, and endeavor sustainability for women producers by aggregating accumulation nether a unified marque and enabling nonstop marketplace access.
Minister for Local Self-government M.B. Rajesh volition motorboat K-INAM successful Ernakulam connected Saturday. The motorboat of K-INAM marks the archetypal signifier of rolling retired implicit 30 technology-enabled nutrient products, produced crossed aggregate districts and supported by extended documentation, integer outreach, and organization convergence.
KTAP 2.0
The motorboat lawsuit volition besides service arsenic a level to showcase Kudumbashree’s wider technology-led endeavor ecosystem. Alongside the K-INAM merchandise launch, the programme volition present the adjacent signifier of the Kudumbashree Technology Advancement Programme (KTAP 2.0) that focusses connected deeper exertion integration, expanded merchandise pipelines, and enhanced marketplace readiness.
The lawsuit volition besides item Kudumbashree’s merchandise branding and marketplace entree interventions, YUKTHI agri start-up inaugural aimed astatine nurturing youth-led agri and nutrient enterprises, and the motorboat of curated Kudumbashree acquisition boxes that bespeak the strength, diversity, and prime of women-led accumulation units.
