K T C Fruit Company

K T C Fruit Company is located at shop number 48 in the New Sabzi Mandi of Sahibabad. If you know anything about the mandi, you know our day starts while most of the city is still asleep. Around 3 or 4 in the morning, the big trucks arrive with crates of seasonal fruits from all over. We spend those early hours unloading, checking the quality, and then shouting out prices to the retailers who come to buy in bulk. It’s a loud, messy, and very energetic place to be. There’s mud on the floor when it rains and the smell of ripening fruit is everywhere. We’ve been operating from this stall for quite some time now. We don't sell individual kilos of fruit to regular shoppers; we deal in crates and sacks for the street vendors and small shop owners. It’s a business built on quick decisions and knowing which batch of apples or mangoes is worth the price. By the time the sun is high up, most of our work is done and we are just tallying the books for the day. It’s a tough life with no weekends off, but the mandi is a community of its own and we are glad to be part of it. We keep our space as clean as possible, though it's hard with all the foot traffic. My brothers and I take turns sitting at the desk to handle the cash flow.