Gopal Reddy Farms

Gopal Reddy Farms is situated out on Malout Road, right near the Mahaveer Cotton Factory. We are in the Village Jorki Kankar Wali area, which is a place where people know the value of a long day’s work. Life on the farm is mostly about the weather and the dirt, and there is no way around that. We spend a lot of time outside, checking on the crops and the soil to see how things are coming along. It is a lot of hard physical work that starts way before most people are even awake. The cotton factory is a good landmark for people trying to find us since it is right nearby. You can usually hear the hum of their big machinery from our fields when the wind is blowing the right way. Our place isn't meant for tourists or visitors; it is a working farm through and through. We have some basic sheds for the equipment and a small area where we keep our records and tools. Everything is a bit weathered from the sun and the wind, which is normal for this part of the country. The Malout Road can get quite busy with tractors and trucks during the harvest season when everyone is rushing to get their crops in. We just follow the cycles of the seasons. When it is time to plant, we are out there all day in the sun. When it is time to harvest, it is even longer hours for everyone. We don't use a lot of big words to describe what we do here. We just grow what we can and try to keep the land in decent shape for the future. It is a simple life, though it is never particularly easy. The dust from the Kankar Wali area gets on everything you own, but you just get used to it after a while.