A chance encounter with a curry in Delhi led to Shashi Bhushan Tiwari setting up a mushroom cultivation enterprise in his village in Muzaffarpur that sells button mushrooms worth Rs 50 lakh per month, and provides employment to over 100 rural women.

A chance encounter with a curry in Delhi led to Shashi Bhushan Tiwari setting up a mushroom cultivation enterprise in his village in Muzaffarpur that sells button mushrooms worth Rs 50 lakh per month, and provides employment to over 100 rural women.

At a time they are usually scrambling from floods, Bihar’s farmers are facing a drought. Urban India can probably not comprehend the annual crises for the farmer in Bihar, now normalised in India’s monsoon headlines.

At a time they are usually scrambling from floods, Bihar’s farmers are facing a drought. Urban India can probably not comprehend the annual crises for the farmer in Bihar, now normalised in India’s monsoon headlines.