90 Integrated Annual Report 2025-26 Agri Skilling: Cultivating Prosperity Led by Women In India’s rural heartlands, the programme aims to empower women in agriculture towards greater productivity and transformed livelihoods. Mahindra’s agri-skilling initiative enables small and marginal women farmers to adopt regenerative agricultural practices, enhance biodiversity, and pursue sustainable agriculture that improves soil fertility and increases yields. The regenerative agriculture training ensures food and nutrition security for their families, increased productivity and helps build climate resilience. This initiative aims to transform conventional labour-intensive processes and household burdens to boost agricultural knowledge, skills, productivity, and incomes, and to enhance women’s role in financial decision-making and agency. The scope of this project spans several aspirational districts supporting women farmers through practical knowledge and hands-on training, facilitating their shift to sustainable farming practices, lowering agri-input costs, and increasing their financial autonomy. In FY26, the initiative expanded its reach through three complementary models: • Agriculture-oriented skilling for women farmers with biodiversity training in sustainable agriculture practices (such as regenerative agriculture) towards soil fertility and higher productivity. • The programme aims to ensure food and nutrition security for their families, enhance income, and sustain livelihoods. • Through the establishment of 'Good Food Corners’, this intervention leverages agricultural land on small plots around their homesteads to help women farmers reduce their agricultural input costs and enhance their income through the sale of high-quality crops. • A new intervention introduced this year equips women farmers, including those in tribal districts to establish and manage small-scale nurseries of vegetables, floriculture, and horticulture saplings using organic/regenerative agriculture practices. This includes the supply of seeds and seedlings, organic compost, and other bio-inputs, as well as facilitating market linkages. • The project helps deliver an immediate income stream in the first year itself, through reduced input costs and enhanced crop productivity. • The programme in Rajasthan builds digital literacy into the agricultural skills training to empower women’s decision-making in households towards enhanced incomes and greater financial autonomy. FY26 Impact • Within the scope of the agri-skilling project, Mahindra Group supported 1,01,212 women farmers in FY26 across Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. • M&M Ltd. supported the agri-skilling of 97,541 of the 1,01,212 women farmers in FY26. Farm Skilling Initiative Prerna is a women centric initiative focused on building the on-farm skills and employability of women (including women farmers). M&M Ltd. has supported 9,151 women farmers by training them in effective agricultural practices. Furthermore, the project offered a package of practices encompassing soil health management, access to farming equipment, connections to government welfare support initiatives, resource-efficient agricultural methodologies, and strategies to enhance crop productivity.
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