Pendgaon Agro Producer Company Limited

Our small office is at Number 85 in Pendgaon village. It’s in the Sillod taluka of Aurangabad. We are Pendgaon Agro Producer Company Limited. It’s basically a collective of local folks who decided to work together. We’ve all been in farming since we were kids, so starting this was just a natural progression for us. There isn't anything fancy about our building. It’s just a place where we store some supplies and meet to discuss the season's crops. Sillod is a busy place during harvest time, and we’re right in the middle of it. We don't have a website or any glossy brochures. Most of our communication happens over tea or while we're standing out in the fields. We deal with whatever the day brings, whether it’s a late shipment of seeds or a sudden change in the weather. Everyone here knows each other. My neighbor’s son helps with the accounts, and my brother handles the manual stuff. It’s a community effort more than anything else. We don't try to sound like those big companies from the city. We just talk like normal people and do the work that needs to be finished. It’s tiring sometimes, but being your own boss has its perks. We’re just local people trying to make a living off the land we’ve always known for years. It isn't perfect, but it's ours and we keep going.