the-last-drops-of-castor-oil-in-jambhali

Kolhapur, Maharashtra

Jan 20, 2024

The last drops of castor oil in Jambhali

Narayan and Kusum Gaikwad’s castor farm stands apart amidst a sea of sugarcane fields in Kolhapur district. For six decades now, they have been cultivating castor and also manually extracting oil from its seeds – a practice that has few takers today

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Author

Sanket Jain

Sanket Jain is a journalist based in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He is a 2022 PARI Senior Fellow and a 2019 PARI Fellow.

Editor

Dipanjali Singh

Dipanjali Singh is an Assistant Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India. She also researches and curates documents for the PARI Library.