Mahhipal Farmer Producer Company Limited

We operate out of Achnera, near Jay Karan Garhima’s place. It’s a small group of us farmers who thought we should work as one unit. Mahhipal Farmer Producer Company Limited is just the name we use for paperwork. Most of us have been farming here in Agra for a long time. It’s not easy work. The prices go up and down and sometimes you don’t even get back what you spent on seeds. We share what we know about the soil here. Some parts of the land are better for certain crops than others. We don't have big machines, just what we can manage. Jay Karan helps keep everything organized at his house. We meet up when the sun goes down to talk about the next season. It’s mostly about helping each other get supplies. If someone has a way to get better fertilizer, they tell everyone. We don't want to deal with people who take too much of a cut. Working as a group helps us feel a bit stronger when we go to sell. We are just local people trying to keep our farms going. There is no corporate office here, just the village and the fields. We do the best we can with what we have. It’s a lot of manual labor and watching the sky for rain. That’s our life in Achnera. It takes a lot of patience.