Jhalkari Bai Mahila Kisan Producer Company Limited

Jhalkari Bai Mahila Kisan Producer Company Limited is located at Malkhan’s house, which is house number 01 in Marha Gursarai. This is a place where the women from the village come together to handle their farming work. We usually meet up after everyone is done with their morning chores at home. It’s a busy little spot, especially when there’s a lot of grain to move or seeds to distribute. We named it after Jhalkari Bai to keep that spirit of hard work alive. The house in Marha is just a regular home, but we use the front area for our meetings and storage. It gets a bit crowded when twenty or thirty women show up at once, but we make it work. We talk about the prices and how to get the best out of our small plots of land. It’s not a corporate office with air conditioning, just a ceiling fan and some plastic chairs. We handle the paperwork ourselves, even if it takes a bit longer because we are learning as we go. Most of us have been farming our whole lives, so we know what we are doing on the ground. This company is just a way to make it more official. We don't have a mission statement or anything like that; we just want to make sure our families are okay and the crops grow well each year.