The Pungudutivu Food Manufacturers (PFM) was established in 2007 by Jamunadevi and a few others to provide skills development and employment opportunities, specially for young women, in a post war context by utilizing local resources, such as palmyrah root and medicinal herbs growing in the area. In 2018, under the Government of Canada funded Agro Economic Development Project (ADP), UNDP supported PFM to improve income through production processing of rice flour, chillie powder and other value-added agro based products.

Today, PFM provides employment to 15 conflict affected women and have increased their sales prominently since inception.The Jaffna Palmyrah Handicrafts Guarantee Ltd is another entity supported by UNDP in 2012 under the Rebuilding Agri Livelihood Project (RALP). With rising sales covering a diverse range of palmyrah based handicrafts sold locally and internationally, as of 2019 they provide employment to 25 other women