Bhanu Pratap Farmer Producer Company Limited

Bhanu Pratap Farmer Producer Company is centered around the village of Gopalpur. We operate out of Durga Pd Singh’s place at Samaspur. It is a family-run kind of thing, with K.B. Singh’s sons and various relatives all involved in the work. We have been working this specific land for a very long time. The company was started because we were tired of getting bad deals for our crops when we went to the market alone. Now we try to pool our resources and sell together. It is a lot of work to manage everyone’s ideas and expectations. Some days we spend more time arguing about who gets what than actually working in the fields. But at the end of the day, we are all neighbors and family in Gopalpur. The office at Samaspur is usually full of dust, seeds, and old ledgers. We don't use computers for everything because the internet isn't always reliable out here in the village. We rely on what we see with our own eyes and what our fathers taught us about the soil. It’s a very local operation. We don’t care about being the biggest company or anything like that. We just want to make sure the families in our group can pay their bills and keep their land. If you come by, you’ll probably see us sitting on the porch talking. It’s not much to look at, but it’s ours.