Marukhetri Farmer Producer Company Limited

The work for Marukhetri Farmer Producer Company Limited mostly happens in Solmari. We are located at Pabitra Kumar Ray’s place, which is near the Kalyanpur post office. The area is very green and surrounded by fields. It is the kind of place where you hear the cows in the morning and the crickets at night. Pabitra has lived here for a long time, so everyone knows where his house is. We use one of the side rooms as our main office. It has a heavy wooden door that sticks sometimes when the weather is damp. We keep our ledgers on a shelf and have a few plastic chairs for when the farmers come by to talk. It is a long way from the main town, so we have to be careful about planning our trips for supplies. The air is fresh here, but the summers are long and very hot. We don't have air conditioning, just a small table fan. Most of the talk in our office is about the soil and the rain. People bring their concerns to us and we sit on the porch to figure things out. It is a very simple way of working. There is no dress code or formal meetings. We just meet when there is something that needs to be settled. The Solmari area is a good place for farming, and we are just trying to help the local folks stay organized with their harvests.