Arshakrit Farmer Producer Company Limited

In the Arsha area of Puruliya, things move a bit slower. Our company, Arshakrit Farmer Producer Company Limited, is located at Manahor’s place in Karandi village. If you know Jaipur and the hills around here, you know the ground is rocky. Farming here takes a lot of patience. We are a group of local people who decided to stop trying to do everything alone. It’s better to buy seeds together and talk about what's working. We have a lot of small plots of land spread out. The weather is often too hot or too dry, so we have to be smart about what we plant. We spend our days in the fields and our evenings talking shop. We don't have a big corporate office. It’s just a room with some chairs and a desk where we handle the paperwork. Sometimes the paperwork feels harder than the digging. We are just trying to get a fair price for our vegetables and grains. In West Bengal, sometimes the farmers get forgotten. We don't want that to happen to us in Arsha. We share tools when someone’s breaks down. We know each other’s families and help out during the harvest. It’s a basic way of living, but we take pride in it. We aren't looking to become millionaires. We just want to keep the farms going and take care of the village. It's tough, but we are used to it.