Appris Farmer Producer Company Limited

If you go out to Kathewadi in Degloor, you’ll find us at House No 87. It’s Laxmibai Nivle’s house, and that is where Appris Farmer Producer Company started. We are right on the edge of Nanded district. Life here is tied to the seasons and the rain. We got this group together because we realized that we couldn't do much on our own. When we work as a team, we can buy things a bit cheaper and maybe find better buyers for our cotton and grains. It’s a lot of meetings in the evenings after everyone is done with the actual work in the fields. We don't have a fancy website or a big staff. It is just the local farmers coming together to make things work. Sometimes we struggle with the paperwork because none of us are office people, but we manage somehow. The Nanded area can be tough, especially when the weather doesn't cooperate, but having this company gives us a bit of a safety net. We talk about the crops, the pests, and the market almost every single day. It’s a very simple operation. We just want to make sure that the people who do the hard work in the sun get a fair deal at the end of the day. That is the whole point. We are not looking for much more than a bit of stability for our local village families.