How to make money from garlic： a true story of an Indian farmer.

Every June is the busiest time for Jag Deeshan in Maharashtra, India. Now is the time to harvest garlic. Jag Deeshan grows garlic himself and also buys it from other farmers. This year, the demand for garlic in the South Indian market has increased greatly, and he will take this opportunity to pick and purchase.

Garlic is a spice crop that is used in food as well as in removing many types of problems. In India, garlic is cultivated in most of the states. But it is mainly cultivated in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu. More than 50 percent of its production is done in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

The price of garlic has been fluctuating in recent years, Jag Deeshan likes to buy a batch of garlic during the harvest season for stock and sell it during the off-season to make a profit.

Garlic storage is a big problem, those with yellow spots and black spots need to be picked out and thrown away. In order to improve the quality of the garlic, Jag Deeshan has to get the whole family together to hand-pick the garlic to get rid of the bad ones. This manual method was very inefficient and affected his buying progress.

When Jag Deeshan decided to sell this batch of garlic, due to the long storage time, he had to select the garlic again, and he could only rely on his family or hired workers.

By chance, Jag Deeshan saw the introduction of the garlic color sorter on YouTube. With the help of the color sorter, the garlic can be quickly sorted and selected, and 3 tons of garlic can be processed in one hour. Jag Deeshan is very interested in this, and he thinks that the application of a color sorter may solve his problem.

After comparison, Jag Deeshan chose the garlic color sorter produced by Grotech. This is a Chinese company. He saw the actual color sorting effect of the garlic color sorter on the video website, which basically covered his daily color sorting scene.

Grotech also has a distributor in India, and Jag Deeshan decided to go to the distributor to purchase a machine. The manufacturer quickly came to his factory and installed a garlic color sorter, and after the first use, Jag Deeshan felt he had chosen the right machine.

With the help of the garlic color sorter, Jag Deeshan's garlic acquisition has become much faster. He focused on the timing of garlic selling. In July 2020, he finally waited for a perfect opportunity, since Since June, the price of garlic in the retail market has risen by 55%, and the price of garlic in Delhi and Mumbai has continued to increase, and he has made a lot of money.

"From picking garlic seeds to selling garlic, the color sorter produced by GROtech has helped me a lot." Jag Deeshan was introduced to his friend.

At present, garlic farming is a profitable business in India, just like onion farming. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest garlic production across India in the financial year 2022, amounting to over two million metric tons. The Indian states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarat . The country produced over 3.1 million metric tons of garlic in 2021. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/744339/india-garlic-production-by-state/)

The emergence of the garlic color sorter has provided convenience for small farmers to deal with garlic, and the improvement of industrialization has also improved their benefits. Technology agriculture may become the trend in the garlic industry in the future.

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