Tulsamai Farmer Producer Company Limited

In the village of Eklara, which is in the Akola taluka, you will find us at Rajesh Bele’s place. Tulsamai Farmer Producer Company Limited is the name we use for our collective work. Most of us have lived here our whole lives, and we know these fields better than anything else. We don’t have a fancy setup. It’s just a group of local farmers who decided that we should probably start talking to each other more about business. Rajesh’s house is where we keep our papers and where we meet up after a long day of work. Akola is known for its black soil, but it also takes a lot of effort to get a good yield when the weather doesn't behave. We focus on the things that matter to us, like getting good seeds and making sure we don't get cheated at the mandi. It is a very down-to-earth kind of thing. We don't have a mission statement or any of that corporate stuff. We just want to make sure that the people growing the food actually get a fair share of the money. Sometimes we sit for hours just talking about the price of diesel or the new pests we found in the fields. It is a community effort, plain and simple. We are just regular people from Eklara trying to make the most of what we have with the tools we can afford.