Shivganesh Krushivikas Producer Companylimited

We are just a bunch of folks from Avhane Kh who have been farming these lands for as long as we can remember. It gets pretty hot here in the Shevgaon area of Ahmednagar, and sometimes the rains don't come when we expect them to. We decided to set up Shivganesh Krushivikas Producer Companylimited because doing everything on your own was getting too difficult. Our small office is over at number 550 in the village. It isn’t much, but it’s where we sit down and talk about what seeds to buy or how the market prices are looking this week. Most of us grew up watching our fathers and grandfathers work the same dirt. We know the soil here well. We started this company because when we go to the market as a group, people actually listen to us. Individually, we are just small farmers with a few bags of produce, but together we have more weight. It's a lot of paperwork and we are still figuring out some of the business stuff, but it feels better than just waiting for a middleman to show up at the farm gate. We spend our days out in the fields and our evenings talking shop at the village square. There are no big bosses here, just neighbors trying to make sure our families have enough to get by. We don't have fancy brochures. We just have our land and our word.