Kopnar Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our company, Kopnar Farmers Producer, is based in Prabhat Nagar in the Karjat area. We are actually operating out of the residence of Mohini Dhanraj Kopnar in the Ahmednagar district. It started as a way for the farmers around here to have a bit more say in how their stuff is sold and handled. Karjat is a nice place to be, but like anywhere else in Ahmednagar, you have to work very hard for everything you get from the ground. We do not have a big corporate headquarters with a reception desk. It is just us sitting around a table, looking at the accounts and talking about what to do for the next season. We help each other with things like getting better seeds or trying to find a better price at the market when things are ready to sell. It is more of a community thing than a big business thing, really. We are not professionals in suits; we are just people who know a lot about farming and the local land. Sometimes the office is just a place to store some bags of grain or a few tools while we wait for the transport trucks to arrive. We try to keep our costs low so that any benefits can go back to the members who are doing the work. If you come by Prabhat Nagar, you will see it is a modest setup.