India, March 23 -- Women entrepreneurs, who had attended the one-month long courses on baking offered by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) extension department, offered their products at Kisan Mela. In 2015, Manjeet Kaur, 50, joined the one-month course on baking at PAU where she learnt to make cakes and biscuits. She now earns an average of 90,000 rupees every month from selling her products. Her company called Dusky Tart received a funding of five lakh rupees from the Punjab Agri Business Incubator (PABI) at the Varsity.

"I was always interested in baking, When I found out about the course at the University I joined because I wanted to learn baking. After coming here, I learnt to make cakes and biscuits. When I shared what I made wi...