Sunday, 7 June 2015

Farm Update 07-June-2015 - Time to build market

Things are just not moving.

This is a dull period with no activity.  Team over there is busy, but no useful work is happening.

a)  There is complete dryness in the climate.  Here and there there are symptoms of rain. But nowhere rain is to be seen, eventhough this is time for Monsoon. Therefore water stock has reached scary levels.  Subbu has borrowed water from neighbourhood well.  He brought new collapsable rubber hose pipe 2 bundles for Rs. 1500/- each.

b) There is no wind either.  In Subbu's words " Zero Watt wind "

c) We screwed up the windpump by replacing 1.25" pipe with 1.75" pipe with greediness to get more water.  But since the time it was replaced, one day of operation showed we are getting less water.  Perhaps it was suspected that Subbu had attached a filter at the end of pump, which might be the cause. Again the entire pipe assembly had to be removed out and the filter removed.

I told him to test in a tub before inserting in to the borewell. They did and found no difference between having filter and not having it.  Anyway took chance and inserted the entire assembly into the borewell without filter.  But since there is no wind for the past 3 days, its working cannot be confirmed.

d) Today there is a workshop in nearby town. I had asked subbu to visit that place.  It is supposed to happen in a Natural Farm called "Nallamuthu Natural Farm and Research Centre, Chidambaram Nagar, Tirunelveli".   It is supposed to be vegetable growing.  I told subbu to participate and increase the network. He is in there today.

e)  Some more bananas have come.  A market survey by Subbu shows that the selling rate is very less in Tirunelveli market.  They donot differentiate between organically grown and otherwise.  We have to compete with inorganic banana.  Hmmm....   The time has come to build some marketing network now.

I need to develop my website and invite customers.

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