Laxmi Rice Mills

Laxmi Rice Mills is right there on Ballabgarh Road. If you know the New Grain Market, you’ve probably driven past us plenty of times. It’s a busy spot, especially when the harvest comes in and the trucks start lining up along the road. The air is usually a bit dusty and you can hear the machines running from pretty far off. We spend most of our days just keeping things moving. My father started things here, and we’ve mostly just kept it going the same way. The building isn't much to look at, just a practical space where the rice gets processed. Sometimes it gets loud, and we have to yell over the equipment to hear each other. We get a lot of local farmers dropping by. They know where we are. It’s easier being so close to the grain market because everyone is already in the area anyway. We don't have a fancy office or anything like that. Just a desk with too many papers on it and a teapot that’s usually empty by noon. The work is repetitive, sure, but it’s what we know. You see the same faces every week, and you get to know who likes to chat and who just wants to get their load dropped and get back home. That’s just how it is here. It’s a job, and we do it every day, rain or shine.