Kakannath Farmers Producer Company Limited

If you go to Jamui and head towards Kakan, you’ll eventually find us. We are in the Kakan Tola, and Sanjay Kumar is the person who keeps everything organized. His house is where we usually meet up to talk about the harvest. We named the company Kakannath after our local area because that’s where our roots are. We aren't doing anything special, just growing crops like our fathers and grandfathers did. The only difference is now we try to sell things together. It’s a lot of manual labor. There aren't many machines around here, so we rely on our hands and our neighbors. The village is small, so everyone knows what everyone else is doing anyway. We don't have a mission statement or any of those corporate things. We just want to make sure the seeds we get are decent and the price we get for our grain is fair. Sometimes the harvest is good, sometimes it isn't. That’s just the luck of the draw with farming. We spend most of our time worrying about the rain or the pests. It’s not a glamorous job, and it’s definitely not a polished business. We are just farmers who have lived in Kakan all our lives. If you need us, we’re probably out in the fields or sitting on Sanjay’s porch after sunset, just trying to cool off. It’s hard work, but we don't know any other way to be at this point.