Vishwashesh Farmer Producer Company Limited

Vishwashesh Farmer Producer Company Limited is run out of Siddheshwar Vilas Lahane’s place in Bagzari. We are in the Ambajogai area of Beed, which is a place where you really have to work hard to get anything out of the ground. Most of us here have been farming since we were kids. This company is just our way of sticking together so we don't get pushed around by the middle guys. We spend a lot of time sitting under the trees in Bagzari, talking about the soil and the lack of rain. It’s not a corporate environment at all. We wear our work clothes and our hands are usually dirty. There’s a lot of paperwork that we don't really like, but we do it because we have to. Someone is always coming over to Siddheshwar’s house to check on something or to see if the seeds have arrived. We don't have any big marketing plans; we just want to sell our produce for a fair price. Sometimes the tractors break down and we spend the whole day fixing them instead of farming. That’s just how it is in Beed. We are just local people trying to keep our traditions going while using some newer ideas to stay afloat. It's a lot of sweating and waiting for the rain, but we don't know any other way to live. Every season is a gamble, but we take it together.