Namana-Pragatishil Kisan Producer Company Limited

Over here in the Namana area of Bundi, a group of us decided to start Namana-Pragatishil Kisan Producer Company Limited. The office is really just at Sanjay Kumar’s place, he is the son of Bhanwar Lal. We are all just farmers from the nearby fields. We got tired of doing everything separately and not having any say in the prices. So we joined up. We call ourselves pragatishil which means progressive, but mostly it just means we are trying new things with our crops and not just doing what was done fifty years ago. Bundi is a nice place but you have to work the land hard. We meet up in the afternoons under the shade to discuss which seeds worked and which didn't. It’s very informal. One of us might be late because a cow got loose or the tractor broke down. That’s just how it goes here. We don't have a marketing team or anything like that. We just have our hands and our crops. We are trying to make sure everyone in our group gets a bit more for their hard work. It takes time to learn how to run a company when you are used to just farming, but we are getting the hang of it slowly. If you come to Namana, you can find us easily enough by asking for Sanjay.