Janai Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our base is at the home of Jalindhar Babasaheb Sapateshri in Rajegaon. This is in the Ghansawangi area of Jalna district. We call ourselves Janai Farmer Producer Company Limited. It started because a few of us in the village wanted to have more control over how we sell our crops. It’s not a big fancy operation. We mostly meet on the porch or in the main room to talk about the farm business. Rajegaon is a small place where everyone knows everyone else. Most of the people involved are neighbors who have been farming these fields for generations. We deal with the usual stuff like fertilizers, seeds, and finding buyers for the grain. Some years are better than others depending on the monsoon. We don't have a marketing team or any shiny brochures. We just rely on our experience and the trust we have with each other. It can be a struggle sometimes to get the paperwork right for the government, but we help each other through it. Working as a group gives us a bit more strength when we go to the market. We are just hard-working folks trying to provide for our families. There is always a lot of tea and a lot of talking when we get together to make decisions. It is how things get done around here. We don't expect things to be easy, we just expect to do the work. It is what we know.