Vishwaraje Agro Farmer Producer Company Limited

You can find us at Lalasaheb Mohanrao Yadav’s place in Hasegaon. It’s in the Kallam area of Osmanabad. Most people just call it the Yadav house. We started Vishwaraje Agro because we needed a way to get our produce out there without getting cheated. It's a small operation. We use one of the rooms as an office and the rest is just where life happens. Osmanabad is our home and we know the farmers in Hasegaon like they are our own family. We don't spend money on advertising or shiny brochures. Most of our work is done through talking to people and shaking hands. The crops vary year to year, and we just try to keep up with whatever is happening in the fields. Some days we have visitors from other villages asking how we set this up. We tell them it's just about sticking together. It gets very hot here in the afternoons so we usually take a break then. The paperwork is the hardest part for us, but we get through it eventually. We don't have any big corporate goals. We just want to see the local farmers get a fair deal. It’s a simple life and a simple business. We focus on the ground under our feet and the people standing on it. That’s about all there is to it, really. It isn't much, but it belongs to the people.