Lokhande Farmer Producer Company Limited

Lokhande Farmer Producer Company Limited is based out of Murud, over in the Latur district. We mostly work from Gorakhnath Manohar Lokhande’s place in Shankarnagar. It’s not a big fancy office or anything, just a regular spot where people come by to talk about crops and what’s happening in the market. The weather here can be a bit much sometimes, especially when the rains don’t come exactly when they are supposed to. We spend a lot of time sitting around the table looking at papers and trying to figure out the best way to move our produce. Sometimes the fans are clicking away while we discuss the prices for the season. People from the nearby farms drop in all day. It gets a bit noisy when everyone starts talking at once, but that is how things go here. We have some chairs set out for whoever comes by, and there is always a bit of dust because of the roads nearby. It’s a busy place during the harvest times, with people coming in and out constantly. We don’t have any slick marketing or big signs. It is just us working through the day-to-day stuff that comes with farming in this part of Latur. Sometimes we lose track of time just talking about the soil or the new seeds someone tried out. It’s practical work, and we just try to keep things moving as smoothly as we can without overcomplicating things.