I, the founder of KarshakSeva came from an agriculture family, after years of work experience on government projects like NULM, CWC, in early 2017 i have realized that in agriculture there are many issues which need to be addressed however very few NGO/ People only working on those to sort out.
In those all problems i felt marketing is one of the big challenges which need to be addressed on priority, so i have met thousands of farmers and buyers to understand the problems which they are facing and visited most of the agriculture markets to know more about on trade process in those markets. It took around 2 years for me to collect and process the information and made myself ready to put the legs in the big shoes. In 2019, the day came to prove myself by addressing a complex situation i.e., Nizamabad (located in Telangana state) farmers issue which drags the nation’s attention.
Nizamabad is a located in Telangana state and the farmers in this district contributing around 4% of the world turmeric production but they are failed to get fair price for the produce. To express their situation, around 1000 farmers tried to contest as MP candidates on Sri Narendra Modi Ji from Varanasi. I strongly believe that the opportunities come from crisis so I would like to create my opportunity from this crisis and started “KarshakSeva” and took this issue as a pilot project to address. Of course, my family background also acts as a fuel to raise the fire in me and accept this as a challenge.
Soon after I have formed a team with the enthusiastic, likeminded people and started operations in Nizamabad. I knew that it is not possible for me to buy the product more than market price, but looking for a plan to reduce the cost of production. So, KarshakSeva team have visited each village in Nizamabad, met more than 10k farmers to know the process from soil preparation, sowing to storage and came to conclusion with a solution.