Kartikeyshiwani Bio Energy Farmer Producer Company Limited

We are Kartikeyshiwani Bio Energy Farmer Producer Company Limited, and you can find us at Lalit Kumar’s house in Kola Haibatpur. It’s house number one, right there in the village. Bio energy sounds like a big, fancy thing, but for us, it is just about finding better ways to use what the farm produces. Lalit is usually the one handling the day-to-day stuff. We spend a lot of time looking at waste materials and thinking about how they can be turned into something useful. It is dirty work and your hands are rarely clean. The village of Kola Haibatpur is a quiet place, but we try to keep things moving. We aren't a corporate office with air conditioning. We have a ceiling fan that squeaks and a few wooden benches for visitors. We talk to the farmers about what they leave behind in the fields after the harvest. It is about making something from nothing, really. Some days are slow and we just sit and watch the buffaloes go by. Other days, we are rushing to get things sorted before the sun goes down. We are just local people trying to bring a little bit of new thinking to the old ways of farming. It is not always easy, and we make mistakes, but we are here every day. It’s just how we make a living and help our neighbors at the same time.