My name is Nagaraju. I farm on 15 – 20 acres of land in Mugluru. I used to supply to the Bangalore & Hosur markets. <\/span>On March 24<\/span>th<\/span>, I got to know about the lockdown. I arranged for transportation of my vegetables, but we found it difficult to go to the market because the police were stopping all vehicles. In the Madiwala market, for Rs. 50,000 worth of produce, I could only recover Rs. 10,000. I faced huge losses that day and returned home. During the lockdown, <\/span>I couldn\u2019t find places to sell my harvest; all the markets were closed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I came to know about Ninjacart<\/strong> while travelling on the roads of Chikka Tirupati. I approached their CC, and they said that they will buy my harvest. During the lockdown, I sold 70% of my produce to Ninjacart<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Ninjacart is very convenient for farmers as there is no loss, mainly because middlemen are not involved. Earlier, 10% commission was taken away by middlemen, but there are no commissions here. In Ninjacart, the prices are fixed for each day on each SKU. In the market, it is not like this. In this Corona times, since I\u2019m interested in life so I do not go to the market. If we load the produce in some vehicle & send it to the market, merchants will say that they couldn\u2019t sell. Even if they sell it for Rs 100, we have to listen; if they say we threw it in dumps, we should listen. Sometimes in the market, we couldn\u2019t even make up for transportation costs. <\/span>Whatever we trade in Ninjacart, we don\u2019t get cash in hand, we get it into our bank account. Be<\/span> it Rs 5, Rs 10, Rs 20 or 1 Rupee, I get it in my account<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ninjacart\u2019s initiative \u201cHarvest The Farms\u201d helped many such farmers sell vegetables and fruits to consumers across the country.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came to know about Ninjacart while travelling on the roads of Chikka Tirupati. I approached their CC, and they said that they will buy my harvest. During the lockdown, I sold 70% of my produce to Ninjacart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_applaud_exclude":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,56],"tags":[28,70,82,75,13,15],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmer-stories","category-patrons","tag-agriculture","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-india-fights-coronavirus","tag-logistics","tag-ninjacart"],"yoast_head":"\nEnter\u00a0Ninjacart<\/span><\/h2>\n