Ekikrit Agro Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our base is in Laharpurgram Mewa, not far from the Ramnagar Shiv Mandir. If you go past the temple, you’ll find us. Dharmendra Kumar Pandey is the one who helps keep things organized around here. We are a bunch of farmers from the local area who decided to work as one group. The village is small, so we all know each other’s families and each other’s problems. We don’t have a big corporate mission. We just want to get through the harvest and make sure the seeds for next year are ready. Most of our meetings happen near the temple or at Dharmendra’s house, and they usually involve tea and a lot of arguing about the best time to plant. It’s a very local thing. We don't really care about being the biggest or the best; we just want to be reliable for our own people. The work is hard and the sun is hot, but having the group makes it feel a bit more manageable. We share the loads and we share the worries. It’s a practical way to live. If someone’s tractor breaks down, we figure it out. If the market is down, we talk about what to do. It’s just a community of people who happen to be in the same business, trying to keep our traditions going in a world that is always changing.