Uzhavar Santhai

In doing Research on this vegetable market, we learned the process of agricultural marketing. When farmers don’t end up at markets like these, they use the help of middlemen to transport their goods from farm to store. The middlemen has been known for exploiting both farmer and customer in this way. So in 1999, the market was created to help support these farmers and customers so that the farmer makes more and the customer pays less than retail price. Going into the market was a beautiful sight and surprisingly mostly women filled the stands.I wish I could’ve stayed until it was over. They were so sweet and kind,calling us over to their stands and commanding pictures to be taken.Two older women blessed me.And even though we have learned that the women here are under a lot of social constrain and it isn’t necessarily considered good to be born a girl, it made me extremely thankful that I am a girl, and a girl that got to connect with other women that are so strong and beautiful. I left with a feeling of empowerment; as if  I left as a part of them.