Hariomm Farmer Producer Company Limited

You can find us over at Nagala Patam in Shamsabad, which is in the Agra district. We use Vijendra Singh’s place as our main meeting spot. Hariomm Farmer Producer Company Limited is not a big corporate business, even though we are near a big city like Agra. We are out in the rural parts where the real farming happens. Most of us have been working these fields for as long as we can remember. We finally realized that if we don't work together, the middleman just takes everything. So we formed this company to help each other out with supplies and selling the harvest. Some days it is just a lot of sitting around and drinking tea while we try to figure out how to get the crops moved. We don't have a very polished way of running things. If someone’s tractor breaks or a pump stops working, that’s what we end up talking about all afternoon. We are just trying to keep things going and make sure our families are taken care of. The soil around Shamsabad is good, but it takes a lot of sweat to get anything out of it. We are just a group of friends and neighbors trying to earn a decent living. There is no big marketing plan here. We just want to farm and get a fair deal for our hard work. It is hot and tiring, but we are used to it and we just keep going.