Ms Suchim: A Small-Scale Farmer Turned Entrepreneur from Nagaland

Ms Suchim is a 57-year-old young-in-spirit entrepreneur. Hailing from the quaint Penkim Village, nestled in the Khongsa block of Kiphire District in Nagaland, she is a self-made woman overseeing the production of Kholar beans (an indigenous variety of kidney beans native to Nagaland). Suchim is part of the Agro Business Cluster in Nagaland which was set up by the Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation (IMEDF), a social enterprise- development initiative of Development Alternatives, with support of the Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) under the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) in 2019.