Baba Udainath Mustard Producer Company

Our place is in Kishori village, right over in Thanagazi. Sedu Ram and the rest of the family have lived here for a long time, so everyone knows where to find us. We mostly focus on mustard because that is what grows best in this soil. When the winter comes, the whole area turns yellow and that is when we get really busy. We aren't some big city corporation with a hundred managers. It’s just us handling the seeds and making sure the farmers get a fair shake. The work is dirty and the smell of mustard is always on our clothes, but we don't mind it much. Sometimes the machinery acts up and we have to spend the whole afternoon fixing it with whatever tools we have. We talk about the rain a lot because it decides how our year is going to go. If the monsoon is late, everyone is worried. If it's good, we celebrate a bit. We don't have any fancy mission statements or anything like that. We just want to get the mustard processed and moved out so we can start again next season. It's a regular life in a regular village. People come by on their bikes to see how things are going. We just keep the doors open and do our bit. It isn't perfect, but it’s what we know how to do.