Doaba Citrus Estate Farmer Producer Company Limited

Up here in Hoshiarpur, specifically in Estate Chhauni Kalan, we spend our days focused on the trees. Doaba Citrus Estate Farmer Producer Company Limited is really just a bunch of us who live and breathe the citrus season. You can smell the trees when the wind blows right. The office is right there on the estate, and it’s usually covered in a bit of dust from the tracks outside. We don’t have much in the way of decorations, just some old calendars and stacks of crates. It’s a producer company, so it’s all about the farmers coming together to see how we can manage things better. Some days are just long meetings where everyone has a different opinion on when to harvest or how to handle the latest pests. It’s noisy, it’s loud, and sometimes people get a bit frustrated, but we all want the same thing. The Estate Chhauni Kalan is a good place to be based because it puts us right in the heart of the action. We aren’t trying to be some big international firm; we’re just local people trying to make sure the fruit gets to where it needs to go without too much trouble. Sometimes the trucks are late or the weather turns bad, and we just have to deal with it. It’s honest work, and it keeps us busy from dawn till dusk most of the year. We just keep our heads down.