Geernar Farmers Producer Company Limited

Geernar Farmers Producer Company Limited is a group of us farmers based out of Hadmatiya village in the Bhesan area. Haresh Chaku Babariya is the one who handles the mail and the main office work at his place in Padaradu. We’re not some big company with a glass building and air conditioning. Most of our meetings happen under a big tree or in someone’s front yard when the work is done. We started this because we were tired of getting bad prices for our crops at the market. Now, we try to pool our harvest and see if we can do better together. It’s hard work and involves a lot of back-and-forth between the members. Hadmatiya is a small place, so news travels fast among the families. We share tools and advice whenever someone is having a tough time with their land. Haresh keeps the records, though he’d much rather be out in the fields like the rest of us. We deal with whatever grows well here in this part of the district, like groundnuts or cotton. It’s not always easy to get everyone to agree on things, but we manage. We aren’t experts in business; we’re just people who know how to grow things. We’re learning the rules of being a producer company as we go along. It’s been a bit of a steep curve, but it’s worth it. We just want to keep farming.