VAASK AGRICULTURE

You can find us right on Malkhana Road, near the 361/2 mark, very close to the Sabji Mandi. Being so close to the vegetable market means our mornings start very early. By five or six, the whole street is already full of carts and people shouting. We keep the shop open so farmers can stop in before they head back to their villages. The floor is mostly concrete and stays a bit damp from the morning mist. We have bags of seeds and different tools stacked against the walls. It’s a tight squeeze when more than two people are inside. The smell of the market—onions and wet earth—drifts in all day. We don't have a computer system or anything, just a thick notebook where we write down what people buy. Our hands are usually a bit dirty from moving the sacks around. Sometimes we sit on the wooden bench outside when things quiet down for an hour in the afternoon. People stop by just to chat about the rain or the crop prices. We've been in this spot for a while now, and the neighbors all know us. It’s a simple business. We just try to have the basic things that people actually need for their land. It’s noisy and crowded, but it is home for us. We have a lot of grain sacks to move today.