Satyaganpati Farmer Producer Company Limited

We started Satyaganpati Farmer Producer Company Limited here in Waranga. It’s mostly just a group of us local folks trying to figure out the market together. Khanderao Dulaji lets us use his place for the main office, but it’s really just a spot to meet. Farming in Kalamnuri isn’t easy because the rain never seems to come when you actually need it. We just wanted a way to sell our crops without getting a bad deal from the middlemen. It is not a big fancy office with air conditioning or anything like that. Most days it is just a dusty room where we sit and talk about seed prices or tractor repairs. Being in Parbhani, you know how the soil can be tricky to work with. We just try to keep things moving forward one day at a time. It’s a lot of hard work and we don't really get any holidays. My nephew helps me with the paperwork when he’s back from school. We don't have many big machines, so we do a lot by hand. It’s mainly about making sure we can keep the farms running for the next season. We deal with whatever problems pop up, usually at the last minute. The roads out here get pretty messy when it pours, so moving the harvest takes a long time. We aren’t trying to change the world, we just want a fair shake for the long hours we put in the sun.