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Passion to profits: How dahlia cultivation is empowering women in rural Karnataka
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As the rainy season draws to a close, Jayalakshmi Hegde is busy tending to her dahlia plants. An avid florist from Nanikatta-Kalagadde, a remote village near Sirsi, she has been growing dahlias for nearly three decades. Planted just before the rains, the stalks have turned the surroundings of her home into a riot of dahlias in dazzling colours, patterns, sizes and shapes.Jayalakshmi is not alone. Thousands of women across Sirsi, Siddapur and Yellapur taluks of Uttara Kannada district, and Sagar
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