Kokanshakti Mahila Farmer Producercompany Limited

We are located at house number 1663 in Shirgaon, right in the Ambekhol area of Sindhudurg. This is a women’s group focused on what we grow here in the Konkan region. Life moves at its own pace in Shirgaon. Most of us spend our mornings tending to the trees and the soil. We set this company up so we could handle our business together instead of everyone doing their own thing. It’s a lot of work to manage the records and the distribution, but we sit down together and get it done. The office is just a part of the house really. It’s where we store the bags and keep the files. You can hear the birds outside most of the time. We aren't trying to be some huge corporation. We just want to make sure the work we do on the farms actually pays off. Some days the humidity is high and it makes the work slow, but that’s just how it is here. We share what we know about the soil and the pests. Sometimes the younger ones help us with the phone calls and the typing because they are faster at it than us. We’ve been living in this village for generations. Our families are all here. It feels right to be working this way. We just take it one day at a time and hope for a good season for everyone.