Jai Birsa Farmer Producer Company Limited

We started Jai Birsa Farmer Producer Company Limited because things were getting hard for everyone in our area. You can find us at Maniram Uikey’s place in Village Khamapur. It is not some big fancy office building with glass windows. It is just a house where we meet up and talk about the seeds and the soil. Sometimes the rain doesn't come when it should, and that makes everyone a bit nervous around here. We spend a lot of our mornings just sitting and figuring out how to get the crops to the market without losing too much money on the transport. Maniram has a small porch where we keep the registers and some old chairs. It gets a bit crowded when more than five people show up at once. We don't have a receptionist or anything like that. If the phone rings, whoever is closest to it just picks it up. Most of the time we are out in the fields anyway, so the office is empty for hours. It’s a quiet life in Khamapur, but we stay busy with the paperwork that the government wants us to fill out. Sometimes the computer doesn't work right because the power goes out in the afternoon. We just wait it out and drink some tea. It is just us locals trying to keep things moving forward for our families. There’s nothing much else to it, really. Just people and their land.