Jai Shankeshwar Farmers Producer Company Limited

We are over here in Beed, right near the Nava Mondha Road. It's a busy spot sometimes, especially with the trucks coming through for the market. Akshay started this whole thing at his place. Most of us here have been farming for a long time, just working the land like our fathers did. There’s not much to it other than getting up early and seeing what needs doing with the crops. Some days the weather is okay and some days it’s just too hot to move, but that’s how it goes in Maharashtra. We set up Jai Shankeshwar Farmers Producer Company Limited because it made sense to work together. Being on Kurla Road means people can find us easily enough if they know the area. We spend a lot of time just talking about the rain and the price of seeds. It's a quiet office mostly, just a few chairs and a lot of paperwork that never seems to end. We don’t have any fancy machines or big signs out front. It’s just us trying to make a living and helping each other out when the harvest comes. Sometimes the electricity goes out and we just sit outside. There isn't any big plan other than keeping the farm going and making sure the families have what they need. If you walk past the Pagariya house, you'll probably see one of us sitting there. The morning air is the only time it feels cool enough to really think straight around here.