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Khundrakpam Kavita Devi
When everybody of the folk busy around farming and agriculture activities, Khundrakpam Kavita Devi cherish for long, a dream, a business from home and care for her kids and husband, a free time business with less physical movements. She always looked up to her father doing a part time business of weaving traditional mats with Kouna (Water reed) and pondered of doing the part time business. Read more
Laishram Babita Devi
She now settles life with kouna handicraft business and earn her twentyfive thousand rupees per month in average, whereas the income is ever increasing. Little effort of Manipur Mapari for registering her in DC Handicraft, Government of Manipur, and planned exposure in Dilli Haat will boost marketing and she is optimistic of a good financial career in addition to her services as nurse in the local community. Read more
Konthoujam Pusparani Devi
She organised a specific training of Kouna handicraft for forty girls and women from her locality in Waithou Thiyam, near Waithou-Phumnon Wetland. There had been a bottleneck in her and friends’ business due to lack of proper marketing facility and consumer demands. After my meagre effort of connecting the artisans, making SHGs and marketing innovations through Manipur Mapari web page,…Read more
Laishram Rajesh Singh
Jack of all, now master in Kouna handicraft marketing, Shri Rajesh practiced many business initiatives to earn a living with his family, now he sees a clear success path with Manipur Mapari. His association with EIACP Hub, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Manipur as organiser of GSDP paved an easier carrier of marketing Kouna handicraft products. Read more
Laishram Bribal Singh
A potential agro-based entrepreneur, Bribal converted his paddy field of four acres to cultivation of Kouna plant, raw material of the handicraft. He earns about twelve lakh rupees per annum from his Kouna cultivation farm with very minimum annual maintenance investment at the tune of rupees thirty thousand at the most. Read more
Sorokhaibam Binot Singh
A family business for decades, initiated by his late father Biren Singh, as a renowned artisan, the Kouna handicraft business is continued by Shri Binot Singh as a legacy. He earns about fifty thousand rupees per month with all hardship to maintain the family and the business. There is lack of proper premises for the business and the ancestral home is shared with two other married brothers. Read more