Ausa Farms Producer Company Limited

We run Ausa Farms Producer Company Limited from Shahuraj Dagdu Chavan’s place over in Chincholi Son. That is in the Ausa taluka. Most of us here have been farming our whole lives. We started this company to help manage the produce we get from our fields. It’s not a big operation with a lot of employees. It’s just us farmers trying to get a better handle on the business side of things. Chincholi is a small place where people know each other’s business anyway. We meet up, talk about the soil, and figure out how to get our stuff to the buyers. There isn't any polished marketing here. We don't have a big budget for that kind of thing. We’d rather spend the money on better seeds or fixing the equipment. Sometimes the paperwork gets a bit much, but we help each other through it. The office is really just a room where we keep the books. You might find us there in the evenings after the sun goes down. We mostly focus on what’s happening in our own fields and those of our members. It is a practical way to survive in this industry. We don't make big promises. We just work hard and hope for a decent harvest each year. It’s a community thing more than anything else, keeping the local economy moving as much as we can with the tools we have.