Kissanmitraa Krishak Utpadak Producer Company Limited

You can find us over in Village and Post Kira, which is part of Tehsil Shahbad. We work out of Virendra Pal Singh’s place. The name Kissanmitraa sounds a bit formal, but we are just a bunch of local farmers. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make our work easier. It’s not easy being a farmer in Shahbad sometimes. The weather is unpredictable and the costs keep going up. So we pooled our resources together. We don’t have a big philosophy or anything. We just want to get our crops sold without losing too much money. Most days involve a lot of walking and talking to the other guys in the village. We have a small desk where we keep the papers, but mostly we are out in the fields. It’s a tight-knit group here in Kira. Everyone knows everyone else’s business anyway. We don't do any big advertising. If a farmer needs help, he just comes by the house. We have some tea and talk it out. It’s a very practical way of living. Sometimes we run out of supplies and have to wait for a delivery from the main town. That’s just part of the routine. We are happy with how things are going, even if it is slow some days. It’s our life and we are sticking to it because we like the dirt under our nails and the smell of the fields after the rain.