Asolamendha Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our office for Asolamendha Farmers Producer Company Limited is at Giridhar Gomaji Bhoyar’s house in Kargaon. It is a small village in Chandrapur, and House Number 42 is where we do all our meetings. We named ourselves after the big reservoir nearby because water is the most important thing for us. The house is a typical village home with a small porch where we usually sit. There is no receptionist or fancy lobby here. If you show up, you’ll likely find Giridhar or one of the other members just finishing up lunch or heading out to the fields. We started this because we realized that selling our crops individually was making us lose money. Now we try to pool everything together. The office has a few plastic chairs and a lot of old ledgers. It gets very quiet in Kargaon during the afternoon when everyone is working, but in the evenings, it gets quite busy at the house. We talk about the rain, the cost of diesel for the tractors, and who is going to take the next load to the market. There’s a lot of laughter and sometimes a bit of arguing about the best way to do things, but that’s just how it goes. We are just local people trying to make a living and keep the company going without any extra help.