Maa Vaishno Farmers Producer Company Limited

We are located in Prakashashahada, and we use Sudam Makkan Patil’s place as our home base. Maa Vaishno Farmers Producer Company Limited is a group of us from the local area who decided to work together. Farming by yourself is getting harder, especially when you have to deal with big buyers and expensive supplies. So, we formed this company to give us a bit more strength. We aren’t corporate types; we are just people who know how to grow crops and look after livestock. Most of our meetings happen after a long day in the fields when we are tired but need to talk about the next harvest. We don't have a lot of fancy equipment in our office. It’s just a place to store some seeds and keep our papers in order. We take things one day at a time here. Some years are good and some are bad, but we stick together through it. We focus on the practical side of farming, like which fertilizers are actually worth the money and when is the best time to take our stuff to the market. It’s a very local thing, and we mostly just deal with the people in and around Shahada. We don’t have big dreams of taking over the world. We just want to make sure our families are fed and our farms stay in the family. It’s just us, doing our best with what we have and helping our neighbors out.