For Radhanpur, once a princely seat, now growing castor on the margin of the salt desert.
A former seat on a hard frontier
Radhanpur was a princely state capital and retains the traces of it, sitting where cultivable land gives way to the Little Rann. Castor is the crop that tolerates these conditions, and it accordingly dominates.
A single-crop dependence
When the land will support essentially one thing, the price of that one thing becomes the only variable that matters. Diversification is not a strategy anyone rejected; it is not available.
Clients describe a helplessness that is genuinely accurate about the crop and inaccurate about everything else. The one-variable habit of thought spreads outward until every question gets answered with the same shrug.
What the work addresses
Finding the decisions that do exist. Whether to store or sell early, whether to invest a good year or spend it, whether a child studies further - these are real choices being treated as though castor prices decide them too.
The point is not optimism. It is accuracy about where your agency actually sits, which in a constrained place is more valuable, not less.
Sessions
Online, in Gujarati.
Frequently asked questions
- Options really are limited here. Does that matter?
- It matters, and it is exactly why identifying the ones that exist is worth doing carefully.
