Jalpaiguri Ankoor Farmers Producer Company Limited

We’ve been working out of this spot at Plot 111 and 124 for a while now. It’s right by Rathindranath Chakraborty’s place in Danga Para. If you know the Pandapara area, you know where the Kalibari is, and we are just right there. Most of us here are local farmers from Jalpaiguri who decided to get together and see if we could handle things a bit better as a group. It isn't always easy, especially when the weather doesn't cooperate or prices for seeds go up, but we manage. We spend a lot of our time just figuring out what to plant next or how to get our harvests moved to the market without too much trouble. The office isn't much to look at, just some chairs and a lot of paper stacked up on the tables, but it's where we get the thinking done. We spend a lot of time on the phone or just walking between the different plots to see how the work is coming along. People stop by all the time just to chat about the crops or share news from the other side of the village. We aren't trying to be some big corporate office with fancy chairs. We have our desks and our ledgers, and mostly we just have the land and each other. Being based here in Kalibari means we are part of the daily life of this town. We see the same faces every day, and that’s how we like it.