Bahragora Mahila Kisan Producer Company Limited

Bahragora Mahila Kisan Producer Company Limited is based out of a house in Charakmara. Satyaban Paira lives at H.No 14, and that is where we do most of our coordinating. This is a group for the women farmers in the Guhiyapal area of East Singhbhum. For a long time, the women did a lot of the work but didn't have much of a say in the business side of things. We wanted to change that. It’s not a fancy corporate setup. We meet on porches or under trees to talk about our crops. We grow a variety of things depending on the season. It’s hard to balance the farm work with taking care of our homes, but we manage. We aren’t experts in marketing, but we know what our produce is worth. We try to help each other get the best seeds and keep the pests away. Sometimes we just share stories about the day’s work while we sort through the harvest. It’s a very local effort. Being in Baharagora, we are a bit far from the big cities, so we have to rely on ourselves. We don't have any big formal plans. We just want to make sure the women here have a fair shot at making a living from their hard work in the fields. It’s just us, working together and trying to improve our situation bit by bit.