Aaradhyakrushi Agro Producer Company Limited

This whole thing started out of Mehkar, right here in the Buldhana district. If you are looking for us, we are over at the place of Shri Dayaram Motiram. It’s a familiar spot for most people in the neighborhood. We decided to get together as a producer company because being a single farmer in this part of Maharashtra is a tough road to walk on your own. There is always something going wrong with the electricity or the water, so having a group makes it a little bit more manageable. Most of our days are spent checking on the crops and making sure the supplies are coming in right. We aren't trying to be some big corporate office with suits and ties; we are usually just in our regular clothes, dealing with the dirt and the seeds. Mehkar is a quiet place for the most part, but it gets busy during the harvest time. You can see the tractors moving up and down the roads and everyone is a bit stressed out. We just try to help each other out with the selling part because the markets can be really unfair if you don't have a plan. It is hard work, and my hands are usually stained from something or other by the time the sun goes down. We just keep moving forward, one day at a time, hoping the next season is better than the last one we had.