Maldakal Farmers Producer Company

We are located in Maldakal, specifically at house number 4-20/A in the Maddelabanda area. It’s part of the Gadwal region, so we have been around these parts for a long time. Maldakal Farmers Producer Company is basically just a group of us who know the land here. We spend our days looking at the crops and trying to make sure things go right with the harvest. There’s a lot of dust in the air when the trucks go by the house. We have a small office where we keep the books and meet up. It’s not a big place, but it works for what we need to do. People from around Gadwal stop by quite a bit. Sometimes we are out in the fields and the door is locked, but someone is usually nearby. We talk about the water levels and the market quite a bit. It’s just the way life is here. We try to keep things simple. Dealing with the weather is the hardest part, especially when it doesn't rain when it should. We get together to talk about what to plant next or how to handle the pests that showed up last month. It’s just us working together to get by. Most of us have been farming since we were kids. Nothing fancy about it. Just some people in Maddelabanda trying to keep the farm work going every season. It's a living.