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India has 150 million farmers. Most of them get ripped off on inputs, get bad advice, and sell their harvest for whatever the local trader offers. We built DeHaat to fix all three.
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I grew up in a farming family in Bihar. I watched my relatives buy overpriced seeds because they had no other option. This isn't abstract for me. It's personal.
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We serve 2 million farmers through 5,000 micro-entrepreneurs in villages. The agents bridge the digital divide. Not every farmer has a smartphone, but every village has a DeHaat agent.
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Bihar is one of India's poorest states. VCs don't usually look here for unicorns. But 100 million people live here, and most of them farm. The opportunity was always here.