Chulia Giri Lac Farmer Producer Company Limited

We set up Chulia Giri Lac Farmer Producer Company Limited to handle the lac business here in Madhyapur. Our office is just at Dikshit Kumar Nayak’s place. If you know Debgarh, you know it gets quite quiet out this way. We spend most of our days talking to the local farmers about their harvests. It isn't a fancy setup by any means. There’s a lot of dust on the roads and sometimes the electricity goes out when we’re trying to get the paperwork finished. People come by at odd hours to ask about prices or how to join the group. We try to keep things moving. Lac is a tricky thing to manage because the weather has to be just right. Lately, the rains have been a bit unpredictable which makes everyone nervous. We mostly just sit around the table at the house and figure out how to transport what we’ve collected. It’s a lot of back-and-forth on the phone with buyers and other folks in the trade. Some days are just filled with checking bags and making sure the names are written down correctly in the ledger. It’s hard work and the sun gets pretty hot by midday. We don’t have a big corporate office with glass walls or anything like that. It’s just us working out of Madhyapur, trying to make sense of the season and helping the growers get their stuff to market without too much trouble.