Kalecrop Agritech Farmer Producercompany Limited

In Sherodi, over in the Kannad taluka, we have our little setup at Girjaba Mukunda Ingale’s house. It is house number 61. Aurangabad has its own challenges with the weather, especially the heat during the summer months. We call ourselves Kalecrop, but really we are just a bunch of local farmers. We got together because it is hard to do everything alone these days. We talk about technology sometimes, but mostly it is just about how to get the crops to grow better in this soil. We do not have a fancy office with air conditioning or anything. Usually, we just sit outside or in the main room at Girjaba’s place. We have a lot of conversations about the price of tools and how the monsoon is looking for the year. It is a practical kind of life we lead. We do not spend money on advertising or fancy things like that. Word spreads by mouth around the village. If someone has a problem with their harvest, we try to see if anyone else in the group has a solution. It is not always perfect. Sometimes we make mistakes with the planning, but we learn as we go along. We are just trying to make the most of the land we have in Sherodi. It is a lot of hard work and the days are long, but we are used to it by now.