Abhidnya Farmers Producer Company Limited

Down in the Sangli district, specifically in Kadegaon, you’ll find our group, Abhidnya Farmers Producer Company Limited. We are located at Ramchandra Krishna Pawar’s place in the village of Shivani. We’re a bunch of local farmers who decided that being independent was getting too difficult with the way prices go up and down. So, we started this company to give ourselves a bit of a safety net. It’s not a fancy corporation with a lot of money; it’s just a way for us to organize our seeds, fertilizers, and the eventual sale of our crops. We spend a lot of time at the Shivani address just talking about the soil and what the market is looking like this month. It’s honest, gritty work. We don’t have a lot of time for making things look pretty or writing fancy reports. We focus on the actual plants and making sure the harvest gets where it needs to go. Sometimes we have meetings in the yard, and other times we’re just catching up while we’re out in the fields. It’s a community effort where everyone knows each other and their families. We’re just trying to make a living and keep our farms going for another season. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of sweat, but doing it as a group makes it a little bit easier to handle the tough times. We aren't doing anything special, just helping each other out.