IDE India
Social Entrepreneur
Amitabha Sadangi
Founded
1991
MISSION
Provide long-term solutions to poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
Where they work
India
BUSINESS MODEL
Improve agricultural efficiency through a range of low cost, easy to maintain and easy to use technologies that enable smallholder farmers to lift water and/or to efficiently apply water to the field. The technologies are manufactured and distributed by commercial players, while IDEI uses grants to fund product development, quality control and demand generation.
Annual budget
US$1.7 million FY13 (Mar-13).
Delivered to date
Sold 1,270,419 technologies reaching 6.8million people that made a cumulative net return over US$1.3billion. Their work also generated USD$758million in related farming employment income and USD$141million in supply chain margin.
Impact
On average customers earn $500 extra per year, which is an increase of 70-100% of their annual agriculture income.
BIG PLANS
To enable 5.5 million farmer households in India to acquire low-cost irrigation technologies by 2020.
Our investment so far
US$400,000 unrestricted grants.
