Roadside vendors turned exporters: Meghalaya’s ‘numbered’ farmers reap fruits of labour
Neighbours Prestina Sangkly, Dilip Rabha, and Mercy Lyngdoh, unknown to each other a decade ago, had something in common. They were farmers who struggled to sell their fruits of labour—the seasonal Khasi Mandarin orange and the Kew and Queen pineapples, and the perennial banana—by the roadside or at weekly markets. Their lives began changing after…
