Agrowan Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our group is based in Puntamba, which is part of the Rahata Taluka in the Ahmednagar district. We are a producer company made up of farmers from this local area. Puntamba is a quiet place where most people know each other by name. No big office building exists for us. We just have a simple room where we meet to discuss our plans for the season. It’s got a few chairs and a lot of registers where we write everything down by hand. Big corporate entities with fancy offices in the city don't interest us. We prefer being close to our fields. The work we do is practical and often quite dirty. Most days are spent checking on the crops or talking about the price of fertilizer in Rahata. It’s a community effort to make sure we all get by. Sometimes we have to deal with power cuts or water shortages, which makes things difficult. There is no PR person to write nice things about us. We are just the people you see on the tractors or in the market. Starting Agrowan was a way for us to work as a team. It’s been a learning process for all of us involved. Focusing on the soil and the crops is what we do best. Every harvest brings a new set of problems to solve and we handle them together as a village group.