Umarana Agro Farmer Producer Company

Our group is based in Umrane, which is a busy part of the Malegaon Taluka in Nashik district. We operate from Ramesh Pundalik Gaikwad’s place right here in the village. If you know this area, you know how much everything depends on the local markets and the highway traffic. We are a farmer producer company, but that really just means we are a bunch of neighbors working on the same goals. There is always a lot of noise from the nearby market, especially during peak season when the trucks are everywhere. We spend most of our time dealing with the logistics of moving crops and making sure the storage is okay. It’s a lot of physical work and sometimes long nights when the harvest comes in all at once. We don’t have a corporate structure with managers and secretaries. We just talk things through over tea and decide what needs to be done next. The dust in Umrane can be thick, and the sun is pretty unforgiving in the summer months, but we’re used to it. We just want to make sure the farming stays viable for the families around here. It’s a basic operation, focused on the day-to-day realities of agriculture. We don't make big promises, we just try to get the work done efficiently so everyone can get back home to their families. It is just the way we have always done things around this part of the country.