Balasaheb Umbare Farmer Producer Company Limited

Out here in Padoli, which is in the Osmanabad district, life is mostly about the land. Balasaheb Umbare Farmer Producer Company started because we needed a way to organize ourselves. We are located at Sarswarti Bhau Bochre’s place. It’s just a regular house where we handle the company business. In this part of the world, water is always on everyone's mind. We have to be careful with how we use it and what we plant. Being a producer company means we can buy things like seeds or tools in bigger batches, which helps everyone save a little bit of money. It’s not a lot, but every rupee counts when you’re farming. We don’t have any marketing people or anyone to write fancy letters. We just talk to each other. If a crop is failing in one field, we try to see why. We are just a group of local guys who decided that we were stronger if we worked as one company. It’s a lot of manual labor and long hours under the sun. We don't have weekends or holidays like people in the city. When the crop is ready, you work until it's done. That’s just the way it is in Padoli. We are proud of what we grow and we just want to make sure it gets to the market in a way that makes sense for us.