Vardhan Seeds Corporation

If you go down to the Jhalawar Road Sabzi Mandi, you’ll find Vardhan Seeds Corporation. We’re right in the middle of all the action there every day. It gets very muddy when it rains, so we spend a lot of time sweeping the front of the shop. Dealing with seeds means we have to keep things dry, which is a constant job. The bags are heavy and they take up a lot of space. We’ve got rows of them stacked up high against the walls. Sometimes a bag rips and we have to scoop it all up quickly before it gets wasted. It’s not a glamorous job, but it’s what we do. The smell of the market is always there, a mix of fresh produce and dirt. We talk to farmers all day long. They tell us about the weather and how their crops are doing. It’s nice to hear those stories even when things aren't going great for them. We have an old desk in the corner where we keep our papers and pens. It’s covered in coffee stains and scribbled notes from over the years. We don't use fancy filing systems or computers here. Everything is mostly in our heads or on scraps of paper. Jhalawar Road is a busy place to be, and there's never a dull moment. We don't try to be anything we're not. We just sell the seeds and talk to the people who come by.