Giraneshwar Farmers Producer Company Limited

Giraneshwar Farmers Producer Company Limited operates out of Withewadi in Deola. We are based at Sahebrao Nimba Nikam’s place, which everyone around here knows. It’s a typical village house, nothing too special to look at from the outside. There’s a big tree in the yard where we usually sit when the weather is nice to talk about the company business. We’ve all grown up around here, so we know every corner of these fields. The soil in Withewadi has its own personality, and we’ve learned how to deal with it over the years. We started this group because we were tired of being pushed around by the market prices. It’s just a bunch of us who decided to put our resources together. We don’t have a fancy office with air conditioning; we just have a few fans that squeak and some old chairs. Sahebrao keeps the books, and we all keep an eye on the crops. There are days when everything goes wrong, like the pump breaking or the rain not showing up when it should. We just deal with it one day at a time. It’s not a corporate life at all. We wear our work clothes and our boots are usually dusty. People stop by to ask for advice or just to see how the onions are doing. It’s a community effort more than anything else, really, just neighbors helping each other out.