This April, for the first time, the Kunbi tribal community in Joida will harvest their crop of pickling mangoes without a trace of nervousness. They now have a cold storage right in their village where they can keep their mangoes before taking the fruit on a long journey to the nearest market. The mangoes, a local wild variety called appe midi, have to be harvested at a tender stage else they lose their value.
Joida, a predominantly Kunbi tribal taluk, is very remote and doesn’t have basic facilities. From some areas, villagers trudge. . .