Brief bio-profile of personal and entrepreneurial activity of Kshetrimayum Vedmani Devi, Ph.D., Global Goodwill Ambassador India for Humanitarian Act


Apart of her educational contribution, she is an active entrepreneur working with local community, in particular women farmers and workers, for promoting entrepreneurship skill in food processing with focus on enabling sustainable livelihoods. She has been inspired by her involvement with local communities in Manipur by giving free post harvest management trainings, specially in the remote uplands, to organize local farmers particularly women farmers and workers in shaping their lives through entrepreneurship in food processing. These benefited rural farmers in finding market for their produces while providing raw materials for food entrepreneurs and contributed towards food security and livelihoods enhancement.
Being both an academician and field practitioner on Food Science and Nutrition, Dr Vedmani translated her interests in ethnic food processing by starting an incubation process at (Sagolband Salam Leikai in Imphal West District, Manipur during 2014 and named the platform for the community as “Vedam Agro Enterprises” and registered it formally in 2015. Now it has FSSAI registered and ISO certified food industry.
Vedam Agro Enterprises is engaged in food processing both as a manufacturer and as networking platform for women farmers and workers in the State of Manipur, with connectivity in entire North East India. Through its entrepreneurial venture, the Enterprise seeks to achieve certain end targets that are social and economic in nature. The primary focus is on strengthening the establishment and functioning of the Enterprise as an initial step towards consolidating a common working platform for women engaged in food processing entrepreneurship and women primary producers based in suburban and rural pockets of Manipur. In so doing, the objective is to achieve targets of: (i) sustainability of women primary producers through networking with food entrepreneurs, (ii) enhancing the productivity of women led entrepreneurships through shared manufacturing and marketing facilities.
With the inspiration by involvement with local communities in Manipur, specially in the remote uplands, helps to organise local farmers particularly women farmers and workers in shaping their lives through entrepreneurship in food processing. This makes benefit rural farmers in finding market for their produces while providing raw materials for food entrepreneurs. There is 120 MSME registered women entrepreneurs working on micro enterprises and 700 registered farmers so far. She made it as a cluster “ AGRO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS CLUSTER MANIPUR” which is registered on Trust and there she is working as a Chairperson of the cluster helping in the backward and forward linkages, giving post harvest management trainings, doing value addition of their products and quality packaging to make a place in the local and regional market. In the long run, efforts will be made towards developing more clusters for better networking amongst women primary producers and the foodpreneurs. This will contribute towards food security and livelihoods enhancement.
Awards and recognitions received so far:

• Top 20 Humanitarian Excellence Awardee- I Can Foundation, 2021
• Lady Legend Awardee 2020 – SAKSHAM, Jaipur,
• Faculty Iconic Awardee 2019 – SAKSHAM, Jaipur
• Best North-East Woman Entrepreneur 2019 by Guwahati based organization Anuprerona,
• Confederation of Indian Micro
Small and Medium Enterprises ( CIMSME) National Council Member,
• Chairperson of North East Region for CIMSME,
• International Board Advisor at World Peace Tract,
• World Peace Ambassador,
• Manipur State Advisor at ANUPRERONA,
• Vice President of North East Women Entrepreneurs Association Manipur Chapter, Chairperson of AGRO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS CLUSTER MANIPUR STATE,
• Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI) MANIPUR STATE COUNCIL PRESIDENT for SME MSME Sector


Kshetrimayum Vedmani Devi has a strong background on food and nutrition studies, having worked with tribal communities in the uplands of Manipur in North East India. She studied the foods & food habits and their nutritional status of few ethnic tribes for her doctoral thesis. She was honoured by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on the occasion of World Water Day at New Delhi on 22 March, 2021. Vedmani was among 10 women from across India to be honoured by the Republic of Women Organization with the citation "Excellence in Women Empowerment" for addressing issues on SDG-1 (No Poverty) of the United Nations. Apart of her educational contribution, she is an active entrepreneur working with local community, in particular women farmers and workers, for promoting entrepreneurship skill in food processing with focus on enabling sustainable livelihoods. She has been inspired by her involvement with local communities in Manipur by giving free post harvest management trainings, specially in the remote uplands, to organize local farmers particularly women farmers and workers in shaping their lives through entrepreneurship in food processing. These benefited rural farmers in finding market for their produces while providing raw materials for food entrepreneurs and contributed towards food security and livelihoods enhancement. Vedmani has been recognized for her entrepreneurship as well as for her efforts to usher in better working conditions of the women food entrepreneurs and food workers, as contribution towards achieving goals 1,2,3,5,8,9,12 of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations on the thematic note: Act Locally, Think Globally.
Awards and recognitions received so far by Dr. Kshetrimayum Vedmani Devi, Founder of M/s VEDAM AGRO ENTERPRISES, Chairperson of AGRO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS CLUSTER MANIPUR and Co-founder of Shubhaan Foundation
• Faculty Iconic Award 2019 – Saksham Society & Parishkar College of Global Excellence at Jaipur.
• Best North-East Woman Entrepreneur Award 2019 by Guwahati based organization Anuprerona, Assam Best of India.BIZ Award in the category of Best Agro Products at the 17th International Edition of World Expo & Conference, Mumbai, 2019 to Vedam Agro Enterprises.
• Global Goodwill Ambassador of India for Humanitarian on dt. 11th November, 2019 by the Global Goodwill Foundation, USA at Delhi.
• Lady Legends Award 2020 – SAKSHAM SOCIETY, Jaipur.
• Best Community Leadership under National Leadership Awards – 2020 awarded by Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ( CIMSME ) Bangalore.
• Kshetrimayum Vedmani Devi of Vedam Agro Enterprises is one of the four women entrepreneurs from Northeast India among the 65 women owned businesses in India have been selected as businesses with potential and selected for the International Trade Centre | SheTrades & UPS project, hosted by India SME Forum and supported by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India on dt.19 October 2020.
• Top 20 Humanitarian Excellence Award among 51 Awardees from I Can Foundation, 2021
• THE GREAT INDIAN WOMEN AWARDS, GIWA- 2021 in the Category of The Great Indian Thought Leader. Presented by – INDIAN OBSERVER POST Supported by CORPORATE TYCOONS, Mumbai.
• National Chief Patron of Research Foundation of India.
• SHE FOR CHANGE GLOBAL AWARD – 2021 and BEAUTY OF SDG 1 ( No Poverty) Global Goals Awards on EXCELLENCE IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT – 2021 by the Republic of Women under United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals on the occasion of World Water Day from the Union Minister of Water Power, Shree Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
• IWIL India IMPACT MAKER AWARD IN NORTH EAST INDIA by the Indian Women League of Institutional India, 2022
• Lifetime Achievement Award on Entrepreneurship Development by ANUPRERONA, Assam 2022
• RURAL DEVELOPMENT WARRIOR AWARD in Education – 2023 by the World Association of Women Warriors [ WAOW ] at Delhi, India.
• Awarded SAMAJSHIKSHAK NATIONAL AWARD by Matrumandir Vishvastha Sanstha , Pune on dt.14th July 2023.
• Awarded SWATANTRYAVEER SAVARKAR RASHTRIYA PURSKAR 2024 on 26th February, 2024 by Swatantryveer Savarkar Mandal, Nigdi, Pune