Barabanki Farmer Potato Producer Company Limited

Barabanki Farmer Potato Producer Company Limited is situated over in Tandpurwa. You can find us at Veerendra Shukla’s place. We mostly focus on potatoes because that is what grows best in this part of Barabanki. If you walk through the fields around here, you will see row after row of them. It’s a lot of digging and sorting. We decided to form this company so we could buy things like seeds in larger batches. It saves a little bit of money here and there. The office is really just a room where we keep our records and meet up when the sun goes down. We talk about the cold weather and how it affects the tubers. Sometimes the blight is a problem, so we share tips on what to use. It’s not a fancy life. Our boots are usually dirty and our hands are calloused. We have known each other for years, growing up in the same village. When it is time to harvest, everyone is busy from dawn till dusk. We don't have much time for talking then. We just get the work done. The trucks come and go, and we hope the price is okay that day. It is just a bunch of neighbors trying to make the potato business work a bit better for everyone involved in Tandpurwa. It is simple work, but it is ours.