Shree Sant Sena Agro Producer Company Limited

Down in Sambar village, you’ll find Shree Sant Sena Agro Producer Company Limited at House Number 429. Neminath Kisanrao Kanthale is usually there if you need to talk to someone. We are a Parbhani-based group, and like everyone else around here, our lives revolve around the monsoon. We started this because we were tired of the middleman taking such a big cut. Now, we try to manage the storage and selling ourselves. The office is just a part of the house, and it’s usually messy with seed samples and old ledgers. We don't use any fancy management techniques; we just talk to the farmers, listen to their problems, and see how the company can help. Some days are good, and we get a lot done, while other days we just sit around because a machine broke or the rain won’t stop. It’s a slow process building something like this in a small village, but we are patient. We grow a lot of cotton and soy, and the work is back-breaking, but it feels better doing it for ourselves. We don't have a website or anything like that; we just rely on people knowing who we are and what we do. It’s about trust and being able to look your neighbor in the eye at the end of the day. We are just regular people trying to make a living from the land and supporting each other as best as we can.