In a shabby godown-turned-office in Vaishali district, Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), pensively browses through the Internet on his laptop. He is surrounded by a goup of farmers who wait expectantly to know the chances of rain. Kumar finally gives up. He walks out of the office and looks at the partly cloudy sky. ??t might rain,??he says, mumbling that weather update in Bihar is awful. His friend, Manish Kumar, another IIT alumnus, is back from a hectic tour of villages in Banka district. Long hours of walking under the sun has made him ill. Yet he joins the discussion on what the group of farmers should grow this season keeping up with the market trend.
