Onepic Farmers Producer Company Limited

Prakash Bairagi has been around Dhad for a long time, and his house is where we all end up meeting. This part of Buldhana is mostly fields, and the people here don't have much else to rely on but the weather. We started Onepic Farmers Producer Company because we were tired of being at the mercy of the big traders. When you are just one farmer with a few bags of grain, nobody listens to you. But when a hundred of us stand together, it is a different story. We are just local people. Some of us grow cotton, others grow soy or maize. It depends on the year and what we think will sell. Dhad is a quiet place, but we have big ideas for how to make our farming better. We talk about the cost of diesel and how expensive labor has become. It feels like every year the costs go up but the price we get stays the same. By working as a company, we can buy our supplies in bulk and save a few rupees here and there. It makes a difference when you are living on thin margins. There is no polish to what we do. It is just dirty boots and long days in the sun. We are just trying to keep our heads above water and make sure our kids can go to school and have a good future. It takes a lot of effort every day.