Khandwa Village Women Turn Homemade Millet Biscuits into a Brand, Supplying Bhopal-Indore

• Antim Bala Patel of Khedi village, Khandwa, started making healthy millet biscuits for children, avoiding refined flour and palm oil.
• What began as a small initiative now involves over 30 women, making biscuits from ragi and kutki under the Rural Livelihood Mission.
• These traditional, healthy biscuits are now supplied to major cities like Bhopal, Indore, and Ujjain, and are gaining traction online.
• The venture provides employment, empowers village women, and offers consumers a nutritious alternative to market-bought biscuits.
• This initiative showcases rural entrepreneurship, strengthening the local economy and aiming for national and international recognition.