Profit with a Purpose
Zizira is not a non-profit. We are here to run a profitable business in order to serve a higher purpose.
Apiculture Mission - Helping Meghalaya Farmers Explore Beekeeping Profitably
You might be familiar with the word Beekeeping! In short, it is the practice of...
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Zizira's Home-made Solar Dryer Holds Great Promise for Farmers
Meghalaya’s farmers now have a great helping hand in their noble endeavour to bring to...
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A ‘Spice festival’ to Unleash Meghalaya’s Flavour on the World
Spices from India’s Northeast, especially from Meghalaya, are among the best in the world. That’s...
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How Zizira Sources Raw Materials For Its Healthy Products
Zizira is spearheaded by a single mantra: "to make a difference to farmers and Northeast...
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Super Easy to Track Trends in Farm Produce Prices!
Farm Produce Prices Available Online! Whether you are a researcher in the food commodities sector,...
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Zizira Travels 3000km To Find New Solutions For Meghalaya Farmers
As part of our continuing endeavour to bring the best, modern methods – that could...
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Peek into Pages from my Start-up Journal
I was taking stock of the year 2016 gone by for Zizira and started to...
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Story of Zizira – Learn Why Chillibreeze Diversified into Agricultural Products
Want to walk with me as I share with you the story behind Zizira? As...
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Story Of Zizira - Why We Need To Open Markets For Farmers
Will the Story of our Experiences Help? This story evolved as I sat down to...
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Story of Zizira – What was our Product Selection Strategy?
Creating unique products that would sell online was a crucial next step. Want to know...
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Story of Zizira – We Learn from Our Failures
Here is the next part of the story of Zizira. We Learnt from a Failure...
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Story of Zizira – Plan to Process Small Batches
Yes, Zizira plans to source, process and sell small batches of products. This allows us...
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Story of Zizira - More on Product Selection Criteria
After a round of testing the market, a decision we took was that Zizira would...
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Story of Zizira – Learnings From Others
In my previous post, I had mentioned two websites – Pepper Joe and Zara that...
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Story of Zizira – Team Needs to be Humble, Hungry and Smart
In the last post, I talked about our learnings from looking at others and had...
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Starting A Food Business That Makes A Difference To Farmers
A few days ago, I shared a note with the Zizira team on Yammer, an...
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The First Golden Yardstick of our Organization
“I am here for a purpose”. We have all said this one time or another...
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Linking Food Startups to Govt. Schemes & Markets
Shillong hosted a National Conference on ‘Linking Food Startups and SMEs in Food Processing to...
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The Chicken Wagon - A Zizira Venture
Zizira launches a Fried Chicken Outlet Did you know that Zizira had a fried chicken...
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7 Habits to Happy Healthy Ageing
No matter what your age, if you desire graceful ageing you can do so by...
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A Pune Girl Finds Her Purpose in Meghalaya
A Pune Girl Finds Her Purpose in Meghalaya I am Mrunmayi, originally from Pune and...
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Can we Create an Online Farmers Market in Meghalaya?
It was a routine day for the Zizira explorers – one team busy writing up...
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Story of Zizira - Why the ‘Discovery’ Theme?
This series of posts – called the ‘Story of Zizira’ are extracted from my 2016...
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The Second Golden Yardstick Of Zizira - Creating A Culture Of Excellence
"I come to work, not to do a job, but to create excellence” Pursuit of...
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