Golden Vaijapur Farmer Producer Company Limited

This group is based right here in Vaijapur. We use Shaikh Akil Shaikh Gafoor’s house, number 1/1896, as our main meeting point and office. It is basically just a bunch of us local farmers who decided to team up for the better. Dealing with markets and buyers is a lot easier when you aren't doing it by yourself. We spend a lot of time talking about crops and prices. It’s not a big corporate operation at all. We are just neighbors trying to get a fair deal for the hard work we put into the ground every single day. Most of the guys here have been farming their whole lives. We know the land around Vaijapur pretty well and what it needs to produce. Sometimes we gather at the house to figure out who needs what supplies or how we're going to get the harvest moved to the city. It’s a lot of manual labor and long hours, but that's just how life is for us here. We don't have a lot of fancy equipment, but we make do with what we have. People stop by when they can, usually after the sun goes down and the work in the fields is finished for the day. It’s just us, working on the same problems every season. We aren't trying to change the world, just trying to keep our farms going and support our families. It’s a simple setup, but it works for us.