Akola Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our place is on Jatharpeth Main Road, right at Sheet No 76C, Plot No 12. It’s a busy part of Akola, so there is always noise from the traffic outside. Akola Farmer Producer Company is just a group of us who live around here. We aren't big-city people, even if our office is on a main road. Most of us have been tilling the same land for generations. We decided to start this company because everything was getting so complicated with the markets. Now we try to handle the selling and buying as a group. It’s a lot of work and sometimes we wonder if it’s worth the headache of all the government forms. But then we see a good harvest and it feels okay. The office is a simple room. We have a ceiling fan that makes a bit of a clicking sound, but it keeps the heat away. In the summer, it gets incredibly hot here, so we do most of the heavy work very early in the morning. We don’t have any fancy mission statements or anything. We just want to make a living from our farms. Sometimes neighbors drop by just to chat about the price of soy or how the weather looks for next week. It’s a local thing, really. We just do our best with what we have and try to help each other out when things get tough.