Nilikumhadain Farmer Producer Company Limited

We are set up over at Khageshwar Prahlad’s place in Madagaonjhakharpara. It’s a long name for a small place, but it’s where we live and work. Nilikumhadain Farmer Producer Company is just our way of staying organized. We have a lot of different people involved from around the village. Some grow rice, others do different things, but we all face the same issues with the soil and the pests. Khageshwar keeps the books and makes sure we don’t lose track of who has contributed what. It’s a bit of a squeeze sometimes when we all get together for a meeting in the small room he has. We don’t really do marketing or anything like that. We just focus on the farming. Most days are spent checking on the plants or making sure the water is reaching the right spots. We started the company because we were tired of being on our own when things went wrong. Now, if someone’s crop fails, we try to see how the group can help out. It’s a very local thing. We don’t really deal with people from far away much. We just want to keep the village going and make sure the families here have enough to get by. It’s honest work, and it’s what we’ve always done. We just have a formal name for it now so the government knows who we are. It makes things a bit more official for everyone involved.