Billing for your organic store in Gujarat
Each farm's ghee, each tin of oil and each farmer's page, on one phone.
What an organic store in Gujarat keeps on its phone from the farm to the jar
Bills on your phone
A bill that reads like a winter menu: adadiya pak, gond pak and methi laddu, each named, and the family forwards it to the relative who asked.
Orders to suppliers
The order for bajri and wheat to the supplier in the week after Diwali, with the day the sacks arrived written beside it.
Low stock warnings
A warning on the winter jaggery that comes early in the weeks before January, when every family wants it, and not after the last block has gone.
Credit book (khata)
A page for the family that takes its ghee on credit through the festival weeks, with what it owes read at the day it pays.
Online orders
A family in a Surat flat sends the month's list of flours and pulses from your online shop on the first Sunday, and the cloth bags are packed and waiting at the counter.
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Winter vasanu, a farmer's mann and the til-jaggery week: troubles of a Gujarat organic shelf
Vasanu in December, sold by the hundred grams from open jars
Families come in the cold months for vasanu, the winter tonics: adadiya pak, gond pak, methi laddu. One jar of each stands open on the counter, and a mother asks for a hundred grams of the first, fifty of the second and a small box of the third, for the whole house. The slip says 'pak' and a number, and by evening no one can say how much of which went.
The farmer says mann and the scale says kilo
A farmer who brings bajri or wheat from his own land still speaks in mann, the old weight of the Gujarat market. The shop's scale shows kilos, and the conversion is done in the head, in a hurry, with the farmer watching. Next season he remembers one figure, the shop writes another, and the lot weighed the same both times.
Sesame and jaggery in January, farali flours in Navratri, and idle shelves between
Black and white til and jaggery move by the kilo in the days before Uttarayan. In Navratri it is farali flours and rock salt for those who fast. For the rest of the year those shelves barely sell. The reorder is made when the shelf looks bare, which is usually the day the rush has already started.
The winter menu on one bill, the farmer's lot in two measures, the sesame ordered on the alert
The winter menu on one bill, each pak named
Make adadiya pak, gond pak and methi laddu three items, each sold by the hundred grams. The mother's bill lists all three by name, and it goes to her WhatsApp, from where she can send it on to the sister who asked what she ordered. The next day the count of each pak tells you which jar to refill.
One line for the farmer's mann and the scale's kilos
When the farmer walks in with his bajri, the line on his page carries both figures: the lot as he names it in mann, and the kilos your scale showed. Next season the same line answers the doubt before it starts, and the farmer watches you write it.
The sesame ordered when the alert comes, not on the thirteenth
Set a low-stock mark for white til, black til and jaggery. When January's sales bring any of them near the mark, the app shows it and you order from the supplier that day. The same mark works for the farali flours before Navratri, so those shelves are not empty in the first week.
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Junagadh groundnut, Banaskantha dairy and Bhavnagar ganthiya: the farms around a Gujarat organic shop
Three places whose farms and food a Gujarat organic shop talks about with its customers.
- Junagadh's economy is mainly farming: over 65% of the area is under oilseeds, mainly groundnut and cotton, and the National Research Centre for Groundnut is here.
- Banaskantha is Gujarat's largest potato producer, and Banas Dairy at Palanpur, sold under the Amul brand, is Asia's largest dairy cooperative.
- Bhavnagar is an important trade city, 50 km from Alang, the world's largest ship-breaking yard, and is famous for its ganthiya snack.
Farmers' stalls and an online shop on one stock list
Questions Gujarat organic stores ask about mann, Jain orders and farali flours
The jar of one pak is empty on Wednesday. What do I tell the mother who asks for it?
Do not weigh from a jar that is not there. The order you sent to the supplier is on the page, so you can tell her it has been asked for, and when the pak is weighed in, she is the first family you tell.
Between the festivals my shelves of sesame and farali flours sit idle. How do I see which jars to bring down?
Bring the jars down by the calendar: the front shelf holds what the next festival will ask for, and the sesame and farali flours that sit idle go to the back until their season returns. A jar that still sold between the festivals stays in front.
Vasanu jars are refilled from each new kitchen batch. How do I see which tonic sells fastest in December?
Make each tonic its own item and add every new batch to that item's stock. Open December's sales item by item, and the tonic that went most is the one to make again first.
Natural farming produce and the state's own sales centres
On 3 October 2026 Gujarat opened over 100 new sales centres for naturally farmed produce, taking the state's total to 1,200 outlets. A private organic shop now has many more such outlets near it, so it matters which farm a jar came from.
In July 2026 the Gujarat cabinet decided to set up dedicated natural farming produce sales centres at municipal corporation, municipality and taluka levels. The aim is that a town as well as a city has a place to buy natural produce.
Under the National Mission on Natural Farming, Gujarat pays farmers adopting natural farming Rs 2,000 per acre for each Kharif and Rabi season. More farmers growing this way means more local lots for a shop to buy.