Pratap Shetkari Producer Company Limited

Our small office is at House 53 in Ardh Masala. It’s in the Georai taluka. We are just a group of local farmers who felt like we should join up to get a better deal for our produce. It’s hard to make a living when you are just one person against the big markets in the city. So we put our stuff together and work as one. We spend most of our time out in the fields, so the office is usually empty until the evening. You can see the dust on the windows from the tractors passing by on the main road. We deal with whatever the season gives us. Sometimes it’s a lot of rain and the fields turn into deep mud, other times it’s so dry the ground cracks open. We just deal with it as it comes. We don't have a website or a big phone system here. If you want to talk to us, you usually have to come by the house or find us out back in the shed. We share a few old trucks to get the grain to the station. It’s a lot of heavy lifting and sweating in the heat. We keep a pot of tea going for anyone who stops by to chat about the harvest. We aren't looking to expand into some giant business. We just want to keep our farms going and make sure our kids have a future here in Ardh Masala. It’s a simple goal for us. We take it one day at a time.