Barwadih Farmers Producer Company Limited

Barwadih Farmers Producer Company is just what the name says—a bunch of us farmers from Barwadih working together. We’ve set things up at Rambadan Mahato’s place in Mangra. Rambadan is the son of Mangal Mahato. We’ve all been farming these same fields for as long as we can remember. It’s not an easy way to make a living, but it’s what we know. We decided to form this company so we could help each other out with things like buying fertilizer and finding people to buy our crops. Before this, we were all on our own, and it was much harder to get a fair deal. Now we can pool our harvests and talk to buyers as a group. We don't have a fancy office with computers or anything like that. Most of our records are kept in simple notebooks. We meet up whenever there’s something important to discuss, usually after the day’s work is done and the sun is going down. There’s no corporate polish here. We talk about the things that matter to us, like the price of diesel and whether the monsoon will be late this year. We’re just trying to keep our farms running and our families fed. It’s hard, physical work, and we all have callouses on our hands to prove it. We aren't interested in sounding like a big business. We’re just local people who care about our land and our community here in Barwadih. We just take things one day at a time.