India, Dec. 23 -- Women farmers in Bihar are emerging as leaders in the state's rural value chains, a new study has found.

The seven-year Personal Transformation Index (PTI) study tracked over 1,200 rural women in northern Bihar.

The PTI is a pioneering tool co-created by international livestock non-profit Heifer International, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Old Dominion University to measure dimensions of change that go beyond income-such as confidence, leadership, agency, and social capital.

Women are transitioning from programme participants to co-creators of rural value chains, leading enterprises, governance structures, and innovation, the study shows.

That is welcome news for Bihar, whose agrarian economy continu...