Nibhish Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group, Nibhish Farmer Producer Company Limited, operates out of Tikariya in the Panwari area of Mahoba. We use Mr. Aniruddh’s place as our main point of contact, so it’s a very local, home-based kind of setup. Mahoba can be a tough place for farming because of the heat and the soil, but we’ve all lived here long enough to know the tricks of the trade. We aren’t some big outfit from the city; we’re just a bunch of locals who decided that working together was better than struggling alone. Most days involve a lot of walking and talking, checking on the crops, and seeing who needs help with what. It’s very informal. You might find us sitting around having tea while we discuss the latest government rules or why the seeds didn't take like they should have. We don't have a lot of fancy equipment or a polished front office. What we have is a lot of shared knowledge about this specific dirt and this specific weather. It’s practical, sometimes frustrating, but always honest work. When we say we’re farmer-led, we mean it because our hands are just as dirty as everyone else's. We just want to make sure the stuff we grow gets to where it needs to go without losing too much value along the way. That’s pretty much the whole story for us in Tikariya.