Women entrepreneurs are constantly re-writing the history with their skills and confidence, and providing a new face of life to the rural population through innovative ventures.

Here is a look at a bold women entrepreneurs who have made invaluable contributions to rural industry especially in the field of apiculture; an essential allied agricultural activity. Bee-keeping or Apiculture, in general, has been taken-up as hobby or at micro level as an additional income generation activity in rural folks.

Undertaking apiculture as a full-fledged entrepreneurial venture by an individual, except certain business enterprises is rarely found. Not many find their way to the proverbial land of milk and honey, but Josephine Arokiya Mary’s slow and steady steps took her there. Her enterprise called Vibis Natural Bee Farming has touched the annual turnover of Rs.3 Crore. Scaling to the greater heights of her entrepreneurship did not come easy.

The study is a sweetening sweat story of a housewife turned agripreneur.