Cheap loans offer Indonesians alternatives to rice - in Urdu
Jul 21, 2013, 01:03 PM
Falling yields forced rice farmer Shamsuddin Bin Rus to consider abandoning his land and moving to the city to find work as a labourer.
But his 41-year-old wife, Kaswati, came to the rescue by participating in a loan programme that enabled her to start her own small business selling jackfruit snacks.