Jagatsinghpur Tirtol Farmer Producer Company Limited

Over in Manijanga, Jagatsinghpur Tirtol Farmer Producer Company Limited has been running out of the space at Santosh Kumar Nathsharmamahamadabad. We are a bunch of farmers from the Tirtol area who decided that working as one big group was smarter than struggling alone. It is a typical local setup where everyone knows everyone’s business. We spend a lot of time discussing the weather and the prices at the nearby markets. The office is just a place to keep the records straight, though it is usually full of people coming in to chat or ask for help with their paperwork. We deal with the usual crops like rice and whatever else is in season. The work is hard and the hours are long, especially when it is harvest time. We do not have any fancy mission statements or anything like that. We just want to make sure we can sell what we grow for a price that lets us keep going. There is a lot of mud in the monsoon and a lot of dust in the summer, but that is just life in Jagatsinghpur. We help each other out when a tractor breaks down or when someone needs an extra hand in their field. It’s a community thing more than anything else. We are just regular folks trying to make the most of the land we have got. It is not always pretty, but it is our life and we like it.