Agro Digital Farmers Producer Company Limited

We are over in Barada village, which is part of the Chatla area in East Midnapore. The company is set up at Siddhartha Dey’s house. The name is Agro Digital Farmers Producer Company Limited, which sounds a bit modern, but we are still just farmers. We use our phones a bit more now to check the weather and the prices in the city, but we still spend all day in the dirt. Most of us grow rice or betel leaf, as that's what does well in this soil. The humidity here is something else, especially in the summer. We started this group because we were tired of getting bad seeds. Now we try to get them from better places by buying as a group. It’s a lot of work to keep everyone organized. We have meetings where everyone talks at once, trying to figure out the best time to sell. We aren't professionals in suits. We are people who wear lungis and shirts and work until the sun goes down. West Bengal has a lot of farming, and we are just one small part of it. We try to learn new things about the soil when we can. It’s not always easy to change how things have been done for fifty years. But we try because we have to. It’s about keeping the food on the table for our families in Barada and making it work.