Belekar Patil Farmer Producer Company Limited

Belekar Patil Farmer Producer Company Limited is located in Lakhani village. We use House Number 50/1 for our meetings, which is the home of Dadabhau Panditrao Kadam. It is a central spot in the village, so it is quite easy for the local men to stop by after they finish their work in the fields. We are just a group of farmers from the Vaijapur area who thought it was a good idea to pool our resources together. It all started with some simple conversations during the local festivals about how the prices for our produce were always dropping year after year. Now we have an actual registered company to our name. We try to handle things like the collection of crops and finding buyers who are honest. We do not have any big signs or posters on the walls. If you are looking for where we meet, you just have to ask for Dadabhau’s house and anyone will point you there. Most days you will see bags of grain or farm supplies sitting out in the yard. We keep everything very simple because that is the way we live our lives. We are not businessmen who wear suits and ties. We are just people who work the land and often have dirt under our nails. Sometimes we have long arguments about which crops to focus on, but we always figure it out. The weather in Vaijapur is always a gamble, so having this group gives us a little bit of security.