Ashtavinayak Jaivik Farmer Producercompany Limited

Over here at Ashtavinayak Jaivik Farmer Producercompany Limited, we’re mostly based out of Saripur and the Veerampur area near Gyanpur. You can usually find a few of us hanging around Kripashankar’s place where we manage most of the daily business. It’s not a big corporate setup or anything like that. We’re just local folks who decided it was better to work together than to try and do everything alone. The focus is on organic ways, which basically means we spend more time weeding and looking at bugs than some other farmers might. It gets tiring, especially when the weather doesn't behave, but we think it’s the right way to treat the ground. We handle a lot of the sorting and packing ourselves right here. There is always a tractor moving somewhere or someone unloading bags of stuff in the yard. We talk a lot about the soil and what it needs, and we try to share what we know with the younger guys starting out. It’s not always easy keeping the paperwork straight, and sometimes we run late with deliveries because the roads aren't great, but we get it done. People around Gyanpur know us as the ones who are always busy with the dirt. We just want to keep the farms going and make sure the families here have a bit of stability year to year.