Kandhrateji Farmer Producer Company Limited

We run Kandhrateji Farmer Producer Company Limited from Manish Kumar’s home in Pandri Kripal. If you know the Gonda area, you know it is mostly farming land as far as you can see. We are just a bunch of people from around Kandhratel who decided that we should work as one group. It saves us a lot of trouble when it comes to getting seeds or selling what we harvest. The office is really just a simple room with some chairs and a desk where we keep our papers. Most of the real work happens outside in the fields. We grow what grows best here in Gonda. Every year is a bit of a gamble depending on how the monsoon turns out. We don't have people to do advertising for us. We just talk to the other farmers in the village and see what is happening. It’s a very local way of doing things. Some days are exhausting, particularly when it is time to sow the crops. We try to keep everything honest and straightforward. If there is a problem, we just sit down together and talk it out until it is fixed. It is much better than dealing with big companies where nobody knows your name. Here, everyone knows Manish and the rest of the family. It makes things feel a bit more solid for all of us. We aren't doing anything special, just trying to make a living like everyone else around here.