Shree Mahaveer Tirthankar Krishak Producer Company Limited

Down in the Jamui district, in the Khaira block, we have our producer company. The name on the papers is Shree Mahaveer Tirthankar Krishak Producer Company Limited, but we are just the local farmers from Tola Panchkhaira. Niranjan Kumar Singh is the person you look for if you need to find where we do our business. The office is basically at his house in the village. We work with a lot of different crops depending on what the weather is doing. Jamui can be a bit of a tough place for farming because it gets so hot, but we manage to make it work. We got together as a group because doing everything alone was getting too hard for many of us. There are plenty of small farms around here and we all know each other’s families. We do not have any glossy brochures or a website that looks expensive. Most of our meetings happen sitting outside on the porch or under a big tree. We talk about the price of seeds, which fertilizer to use, and where we can sell our harvest. It is all very practical stuff. Nobody here acts like an executive; we are just people who work the land every day. The address in Tola Panchkhaira is where we keep the records and handle the paperwork. It is a small operation, but it keeps us busy and gives us some independence in the market.