Shri Bhaveshwari Mahila Agro Producercompany Limited

This is basically a group of women from Belawale Khtal in the Kagal area who decided we should do something together. We run the whole thing from House No 415. It is just a regular house in the village, nothing special. Kolhapur is famous for its farming, but for us women, it was always a bit of a struggle to get a fair say in the markets. That is why we started Shri Bhaveshwari Mahila Agro. We spend most of our time out in the fields or here at the house planning what to grow next. We deal with whatever the season throws at us. Sometimes it is sugarcane, sometimes it is other crops. It isn’t always easy balancing the housework and the kids with the company work, but we make it work somehow. We aren’t experts in business or anything fancy like that. We just know how to grow things and how to look after the land we have. When we first started, people in the village had a lot of questions. Now, it is just a normal part of life here. We do not have a big office with air conditioning. It is just some chairs and a table where we talk about seed prices and the harvest. We just wanted to make sure the work we do in the fields brings something back home. If you come by Belawale, you will see us working. We do not have flashy signs, just us doing our usual work together.