Krushival Shetkari Farmers Producer Company Limited

Krushival Shetkari Farmers Producer Company Limited is located over at S.N. 165 in the Devgari Teacher Colony area of Beed. It’s a bit of a specific address, but people around here know where it is. We are a group of farmers who decided to band together. Beed is a tough place for farming with the water situation and the heat, so we try to help each other out. We don't have a big corporate building. It's more like a meeting room where we gather to plan the next season. We talk about what to plant and how to share the costs of equipment or repairs. It’s a very practical arrangement. Sometimes we have tea and spend hours just debating the best way to handle a pest problem or a buyer. We aren't professionals in suits; we are people who have spent our lives in the dirt. Our hands are usually stained from the work we do. We don't use a lot of fancy words or big promises. We just look at the facts and try to make decisions that help the whole group. Sometimes we disagree and the meetings go late into the evening when it is cooler. But at the end of the day, we are all neighbors who live in the same area. We just want to see the farms in this part of Beed do well and stay productive. It’s a slow life but it’s ours and we like it that way.