Sakhubai Farmer Producer Company Limited

Sakhubai Farmer Producer Company is basically run from Prakash Tukaram Hemke’s house in Mchincholi. If you’re coming through Ghansawangi in the Jalna district, you’ll see the kind of life we live. It’s all about the land here. We named this after Sakhubai because there’s a lot of respect for the elders who taught us how to farm in the first place. It’s not always easy, and some years are better than others depending on the monsoon. We don’t have a marketing team or anyone to write fancy documents for us. We just write down what we need in old notebooks and try to keep track of the bags and the seeds. There’s always a bit of a crowd at Prakash’s place, mostly local guys coming to see if we’ve heard anything about the new prices or if the fertilizer has arrived yet. The dust gets everywhere in the dry season, and the roads aren't always the smoothest for the trucks, but we make do with what we have. We aren't looking to become some huge corporation. We just want to make sure the people in Mchincholi who work the ground every day get a fair deal. It’s about the community and making sure the next generation doesn’t have it as hard as we did. We just keep our heads down and keep working the dirt.