Mnd Women Agro Producer Company Limited

Up here in the hills at the Nagri Farm Tea Estate, things move a bit slower than they do down in the plains. We are the Mnd Women Agro Producer Company Limited. We’re located in a spot called School Gaon, which is part of the Nagri Spur area. It’s a beautiful place to live, but the work is very hard on the body. Most of us are women who have worked on these tea estates and small farms our whole lives. We decided to start this company to try and help ourselves get a better deal. We deal with the things we grow here, mostly tea leaves and some local vegetables. The air is always cool and misty, but the slopes are very steep to climb every day. We spend a lot of time walking between the different houses and the fields. Our office is just a small, cramped room near the school. We meet there to talk about what we’re going to sell and how we can get it down to the lower towns for a decent price. Sukhia Pokhria is where the police station is, and we have to go there or the post office for all the official stuff. It’s a lot of walking on those mountain roads. We don't have much in the way of equipment, but we have each other. We try to figure out the best way to keep our small farms going.