Micro-Agripreneurs Training Program

B2V identified and selected 75 young tribal candidates across four districts of Odisha, prioritising enterprising individuals with the potential to become community-level agricultural service providers. The core of the programme was a five-day residential training format, designed to deliver a deliberately broad curriculum in concentrated form: organic and integrated farming methods, basic bookkeeping and accounting, customer relationship skills, communication, and practical ICT literacy including smartphone and internet use. The residential structure was a conscious design choice, creating an immersive learning environment removed from daily pressures and enabling peer cohort building across districts that would have otherwise been impossible through dispersed training.

Each training cohort was taken on an exposure visit to a functioning organic farm, grounding the theoretical and classroom content in observable reality. For tribal youth with limited exposure to commercially oriented agriculture, seeing a successful organic enterprise operating at scale is a more powerful motivator than any training material.