Varanasi: Reshamandi, Bengaluru-based Agri-Tech Startup digitizes the Indian silk supply chain, has created a network of handloom weavers in Varanasi to overcome their root problems with the help of technology intervention.
“At present, Reshamandi has a network of around 200 weavers in Varanasi which mostly uses a handloom, thus preserving authentic art of traditional weaving,” said Co-Founder Resamandi, Utkarsh apoorva.
He said that as a limited limit to Covid-19 caused a detrimental impact on silk weavers, which did not have a market relationship to get silk threads and sell their products to retailers which resulted in loss of income, default on loans and threatening their survival, the company.
Working with the main stakeholders with the vision of making India ‘Atmanirbhar’ in silk production.
He said that Reshamandi was also involved with the Weaver Community in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to overcome their problems such as the procurement of threads convincing timely quality, lack of working capital funds and fast turnover of their goods with the help of technology intervention.
APOORVA claims that this weaver sees an increase in demand for their goods from retailers and is able to get more than 8-17% profitability in their manufacturing because they really reduce Chinese threads and buy Indian silk threads from resamandi.
The company works as a grassroots level enabler that works directly with seremultur farmers, fabric weavers, silk rollers, and retailers, allowing them to get the best prices for their products, reduce time to market, and ensure that they are supplied with the best raw materials and kits Quality assurance testing.
It implements traditional intervention such as thread assessment before each delivery to provide weavers with quality products, he said.