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We try to encourage export oriented units in the rural areas by locating international markets and helping develop a distribution network, she is making fans. She is making the fans for her own use whereas if she were to apply for a loan she could buy raw material with the money and mass produce these fans, the family would have an extra source of income. I remember a case in the Bhujodi district of Gujarat. Vishram Ji Walji had inherited an old loom. A loom which is provided them two square meals a day, however, Vishram Ji's forefather did not have the choice he has, he applied for a loan to the bank for a total amount of 2000 rupees. Today Walji owns seven looms he produces exquisites shawls and Daris distributed nationally and internationally he hires the local women to embroider the li