Kevlai Agro Farmer Producer Company Limited

In the village of Bardapur, within the Ambajogai taluka, you’ll find Kevlai Agro Farmer Producer Company Limited. We are based at Suresh Damodhar More’s house. It is a very simple operation. We are basically a group of neighbors who realized that doing everything alone was getting us nowhere. The farming life around here is tough, especially when the rains are unpredictable. We mostly grow what everyone else grows, but we try to do it a bit smarter by talking to each other. When it's time to sell the harvest, we try to do it as a group so we have a bit more say in the price. It’s not always easy and we have plenty of arguments about the best way to do things. But at the end of the day, we are all in the same boat. The room we use for meetings is usually filled with the smell of tea and the sound of people complaining about the cost of diesel. We don't have a big staff or fancy equipment. It’s just us farmers trying to figure things out. Sometimes we make mistakes with the paperwork or we miss a deadline, but we are learning. Most of the time you can find us out in the fields rather than sitting at a desk. We care about the land because it’s all we have. It’s a practical way of living, and we just hope to keep the local farms going for the years to come.