Umedsakhi Mahila Farmer Producer Company Limited

This company belongs to the women farmers around Ambajogai. We use a space at Pandurang Rakhmaji Malve’s place near the DCC Bank in Bardapur. It’s a small setup because we spend most of our time out in the dirt anyway. We named it Umedsakhi Mahila Farmer Producer Company Limited because it’s about us working together as friends and neighbors. Farming in this part of the country is tough. You never know if the rain will come on time or if the pests will stay away. By having this company, we can talk about these things and try to solve problems together. We don't have a fancy office with air conditioning. It’s just a room with some chairs and a lot of registers. We handle things like getting inputs for the farms and talking to traders. It’s a lot of work on top of our usual chores at home and in the fields. But it feels right to have something of our own. We aren't trying to be a huge corporation. We just want to make sure our families are okay and that our work is respected. Some days are better than others, but we keep showing up. It’s a slow process building something like this from scratch. We learn something new every week, mostly by making mistakes and fixing them as we go along together.