Dharasurmardini Mahila Farmer Producercompany Limited

We are a group of women from Bembli village in Osmanabad. Our company is called Dharasurmardini Mahila Farmer Producercompany Limited. We use Chandrakant Bapurao Upadhye’s house in Mote Galli as our home base. Life in Bembli revolves around the seasons and the fields, and for us women, it has always been a lot of work that people do not always see. We started this company to give ourselves a bit more of a say in how our crops are sold and what we do with our land. It is not a fancy setup; we mostly meet in the galli or at the house to talk about the harvest. We grow what we can and try to help each other when the weather gets bad, which happens a lot in Osmanabad. It is dusty and hot work, and we do not have any professional office staff. It is just us, the local women, doing the paperwork and the planning ourselves. We did not do this to become some big famous brand, we just wanted to make sure that when we work all day in the sun, we actually see some of that money come back to our own homes. We are just neighbors who have known each other for years, now working together as a business. It is tough, and there is always something to worry about, but we are doing it our own way. We just try to keep moving forward.