Suresh Pawar grows strawberries in Mahabaleshwar. The 39-year-old farmer works on his roughly 2.5 acres of land everyday, and is doing pretty well for himself. Like any entrepreneur, however, he has ambitions, and has set his eyes down South — Chennai in particular — to fulfil them.

He has been supplying strawberries — “around 500 kilograms a day,” he says — to Chennai for the past two years, but has been looking for a chance to visit the city and see what really happens to his produce once it leaves his farm. The firm he’s tied up with, city-based supply and retail chain SunnyBee, has finally arranged for him to do so, along with around 75 other farmers from various states across the country......Read more

Source web page:The Hindu