Parden Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group is mostly made up of local people from Tongritoli village. We set up our main base at Sukhdev Oraon’s place because it was the most convenient spot for everyone to gather. Most of the folks here in Udrangi have spent their entire lives working in the fields, so starting a producer company together felt like a natural step. We are not businessmen who wear suits or sit behind big desks all day. Most of our meetings happen while sitting on charpais or under a large tree when the weather is nice enough. Bhandra block is where we live and where we do all our work. We deal with whatever the seasons bring us, whether it is paddy or different kinds of vegetables. Sometimes the pests are really bad, or the monsoon comes later than we expected, but that is just how farming goes. We share the workload so that nobody in the village has to struggle on their own. It can be hard to get things moving sometimes when the roads are in bad shape or when we have to travel into the main town for official paperwork. We are not doing anything fancy here. It is just about growing our crops and trying to sell them for a fair price so our families have what they need. We know every inch of this land because it has been in our families for a long time. (247 words)