Chhedi Farmer Producer Company Limited

Tundla is mostly known for the railway junction, but out in Nagla Bari, life is all about the land. We operate from Vinod Kumar Yadav’s place, which serves as our main point of contact for the company. It’s a very simple setup, nothing like the offices you see in the big cities. We have a few chairs and a table where we sit and go over the accounts. The farmers come by when they have a break from their work, so we don't really have fixed hours that everyone follows strictly. Sometimes we are busy late into the evening, and other times it is very quiet. We don't have a fancy mission statement or any of that corporate talk. We are just trying to help the local producers get organized so they have a bit more weight when they go to market. The office can get a bit cluttered with bags of seeds or old newspapers, but it is a working space. We deal with the heat and the dust just like everyone else around here. Vinod manages the paperwork, which can be quite a lot for a small group like ours. We don't have any employees in uniforms, just local people who know about farming and want to help the community. It’s a practical, no-nonsense way of working, and we just take the challenges as they come each season. There isn't much more to it than that.