Sandip Kadam grew up watching his father and grandfather cultivate wheat, maize, and sugarcane on their 10-acre farm in Chikmahud village, in the drought-prone Sangola region of Maharashtra. After graduating in 2005, he joined them in farming but decided to grow pomegranates on two acres due to mounting losses from traditional crops.
“Even pomegranate turned out to be loss-making because unseasonal rains led to frequent diseases like bacterial …
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