Shreepadvallabh Sadguru Farmers Producer Company Limited

If you go down Nagar Road in Jamkhed, you’ll find us near Bhausaheb Maruti Andhale’s place. That’s where Shreepadvallabh Sadguru Farmers Producer Company Limited operates. It’s a long name for a simple group of farmers. We deal with the typical crops you find around Ahmednagar. Life here revolves around the seasons. When it’s harvest time, nobody sleeps much. We started this because middle-men were taking too much of our profit. Now, we try to manage the selling part ourselves. It’s a learning process. None of us went to business school. We just know how to grow things in the local soil. The weather here can be tough, especially the heat. We talk a lot about water management and how to keep the crops alive during the dry spells. Our office at 9686 Nagar Road is usually busy with people coming in to talk about their yields. We don't have a receptionist or anything like that. You just walk in and find whoever is there. We use our collective strength to get better deals on whatever we need for the fields. It’s not about getting rich; it’s about making sure we can pay our bills and keep the land productive. We take it one day at a time, looking at the sky and checking the ground. It’s honest work, even if it’s exhausting most of the time. We just keep our heads down and work the dirt.