SHG spotlight: a Kudumbashree unit running a full vegetable rotation
Six women from a Mattannur Kudumbashree unit handle land prep, planting, weeding and harvest across two plots — with every task closed on their own phones.
- Team members
- 6
- Plots handled
- 2
- Crops in rotation
- 5
- Tasks closed with photo proof
- All
How the work reaches them
The unit is empanelled on the platform, so field work on nearby parcels goes to them instead of to outside labour. Tasks appear on their phones in Malayalam with the date they are due.
Okra, spinach, snake gourd, amaranth and cowpea move through the two plots in rotation, which keeps the soil working and gives the team something to harvest most weeks.
Proof, then payment
A task is closed by taking a photo on the spot. The app stamps it with time and location, an ops reviewer verifies it, and only verified work enters the payment list.
That single step removed most arguments about what was done and when. It also means the team's record is theirs — visible, dated and not dependent on anybody's memory.
What the team says they need next
Shade netting for the summer months and a small collection shed closer to the plots, so harvested crates do not sit in the sun waiting for pickup.
We are costing both into the next cycle plan for those parcels.
Want to be part of the next one?
Landowners can list a plot, SHG units can apply to take up field work, and anyone in Kerala can buy the produce.
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