Pimpri Gawali Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group is based in the village of Pimpri Gawali. You can usually find us over at Wasudeo Patil’s place most days. We are a farmer producer company, but that really just means we are a bunch of neighbors working together to sell what we grow in the fields. We do not have a regular office building with a receptionist or anything like that. Most of our meetings happen in the front yard or under a tree when it is hot. We talk about who has the best crop this year and how we can get a better price if we all sell our stuff together. It is about helping each other out in the taluka. Sometimes the market prices are really bad and we have to figure out what to do next. We do not use any big words or complicated business plans. We just look at the harvest and the bags of produce sitting there ready to go. Everyone chips in with the work. My kids sometimes help me with the paperwork because I am not very good with computers. It is a very local thing. We know the land and we know the people who work it every day. We have been living here for a long time. It is just about getting the food from the fields to the people who need it. We do not try to look fancy.