Shivrana Agritech Farmers Producer Company Limited

If you come down to Ancharwaditq in Chikhali, you’ll find us working on the farms. Shivrana Agritech is our group that we started because the middleman was taking too much. We are all local farmers from Buldhana district. It’s a quiet place, mostly fields and small roads. We put this company together to manage our own tech and seeds. It isn't a big office building; it’s mostly just us out in the fields or meeting at the post office area to discuss the next crop cycle. Chikhali is where we do most of our business. We’ve all been doing this since we were kids, following what our fathers did. Now we are trying to use a bit more modern stuff to help the yields, but the work is still the same. Hard and honest. We don't have any fancy mission statements or things like that. We just want to make sure the families here get a fair price for their cotton or whatever else we are growing this year. Sometimes the rain doesn't come when it should, and that’s when being part of Shivrana helps. We support each other through the bad seasons. It’s just a local effort by people who know the soil here in Buldhana. We’ve seen a lot of people leave for the cities, but we want to stay. Having this company helps us feel a bit more secure about our future. We share the equipment when one of us has a breakdown. It's just what you do in a place like Buldhana.