On weekends, people in cars and on bikes can be seen driving through narrow roads in villages of Shamirpet Mandal in Medchal Malkajgiri, looking for grape orchards to buy the fruits in huge quantities. Until a few decades ago, those traveling on highways leading to Hyderabad used to see huge tracts of the orchards in the city periphery including Shamshabad, Tukkuguda, Bolarum, Shamirpet and few more places. At one point of time, the fruits cultivated in the orchards were consumed in European and other countries as the city was prominent for the exports.