Sustainable Production
Millet and fruit cookies from Bemetara, made for wholesale buyers and local livelihoods.
Location
Bemetara, Chhattisgarh
Project lead
Kalpesh Varu
Domain
Sustainable Production
Products
5–6 cookie varieties
Families
10 families (8 women, 2 men)
Market
Business to business
About
Cookies from millets, fruit and raw sugar, sold to shops and institutions, not only over the counter.
Green Care Foods has run for several years in Bemetara. Millets belong to regional farming; putting them in a packaged cookie makes them easier to eat in ordinary kitchens.
The work is B2B: wholesale, retail and institutional buyers. Repeat orders let production stay regular. Quality is kept even when that raises cost, so the product is not sold only as the cheapest biscuit.
Our work
Cookies, families on the line, buyers who value grain, and SHAPE’s support.
01 / Products
The range is built on millets, fruit and raw sugar, not refined flour alone.
Better ingredients cost more; the enterprise looks for buyers who value that, not only a low shelf price.
02 / Work
Eight women and two men work in production.
Rural women can earn without leaving for a city.
Continuity of that work matters as much as headcount.
03 / Buyers
Natural ingredients make the cookies cost more than mass-market biscuits.
Buyers need to see the grain, who made them and why they cost what they do.
04 / SHAPE support
SHAPE’s recorded support of about ₹6 lakh has kept the line running: machinery, wages, production and day-to-day costs, in the Sustainable Production domain.
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Impact
A small B2B bakery in Bemetara, already employing local families.
5–6
Cookie varieties
10
Local families
8
Women on the line
₹6 lakh
SHAPE support recorded
Quality is kept even when it costs more. The cookie is not only the cheapest biscuit on the shelf.
FAQ
Contact
For wholesale, distribution or support, write to SHAPE Foundation.
Write to SHAPESupport
Help keep millet- and fruit-based cookies in production, and keep ten local families on the line.