Sonarayer Dham Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our place is located at Plot Number 324 in Jogendrapur, which is part of Falakata. If you know the Jalpaiguri area, you know it can get very green and wet during the monsoon months. Sonarayer Dham Farmers Producer Company Limited is basically just a bunch of us from the village and nearby areas coming together. We deal with the usual stuff you’d expect from a farming group in West Bengal. The office isn't much to look at, just a simple building where we keep our records and meet up. We started this because doing things alone was getting harder every year. It’s easier to talk to banks or buyers when there are more of us involved. Sometimes we sit around for hours just talking about the weather and how it might ruin the harvest. It’s not all business all the time. There’s a lot of tea drinking involved, as is the custom around here. We try to keep our paperwork in order, even though none of us really likes sitting at a desk for long. Most of the guys would rather be outside in the fields than looking at a computer screen. We keep the gate open most days so anyone from the village can walk in if they have a question or just want to chat. It’s a practical setup for people who live and work right here in the 735211 zip code.