Kekan Agro Producer Company Limited

Our place is out in Nalewadi, which is part of Ambad in the Jalna district. If you know the area, it’s mostly fields as far as you can see. We set up Kekan Agro Producer Company because there was a lot of talk among the neighbors about how hard it was to get things to the main market without a group. So, we got together. The office is simple, just a room where we keep the records and meet up to discuss the rains. Jalna gets really hot in the summer, so we usually start our work before the sun is fully up. We deal with the local grains and whatever else the season brings in from the surrounding farms. It’s a lot of physical work, moving bags and checking how the soil and the seeds we use are doing. Sometimes the road to Ambad is in bad shape, which makes transport a headache, but we manage. We aren’t big shots, just people from the village trying to organize the farming a bit better. You can usually find one of us hanging around the site near the main village path. We talk to the other farmers about their yields and what the prices are looking like this week. It’s a quiet life for the most part, but there’s always something to do when harvest time comes around. We just keep our heads down and do the work that needs doing every single day to keep the business going.