Pancha Sathi Niyantran Farmers Producer Company Limited

We are located at Plot No- 171 near the Sitai More area in Mathabhanga. The office is basically at Shyamal Das’s place. It’s a handy spot because everyone passes by Sitai More when they’re headed into town anyway. Pancha Sathi Niyantran Farmers Producer Company Limited is the name we chose. It sounds a bit formal on paper, but it’s really just a few of us and some neighbors from the nearby farms. We wanted to have some real control over how we sell our produce, which is why we put that word in the name. Farming around Mathabhanga can be pretty good if the monsoon rain stays on schedule. We grow a lot of different things depending on what time of year it is. Sometimes we meet up at the plot and just walk around looking at what needs to be done. It’s not like a big corporate office you’d see in the city. We have some wooden benches and a metal cabinet for our files. We talk about the fertilizers we need or if anyone has a tractor that we can share for the week. Shyamal is the one who keeps the books for us. He’s always been good with the numbers. The rest of us are usually out in the dirt doing the heavy lifting. It’s a simple, honest life. We don't use big words or have fancy meetings. We just want to make sure the work pays off in the end.