Dishom Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group is over in Littipara, working out of Subhash Chandra Mandal’s house. It’s a pretty small operation if you look at the building, but we cover a lot of ground in the fields. Littipara is where we all live and breathe. We formed this company because individual farming has a lot of hurdles. Now, we work as a team. We deal with the local crops and try to find better ways to handle the harvest. It’s not fancy. There’s usually some dust on the floor and some mud on our boots. We spend a lot of time discussing seed quality and the monsoon. It's just what we do here. We aren't looking to become some giant corporation. We just want the families here to have a bit more security with their crops. When you walk into our place, you see a few desks and some sacks. It’s a working office. We don’t have much time for polish. We talk straight and focus on the day's tasks. Sometimes we meet late in the evening after everyone is done with their own plots. That’s when the real planning happens. It’s a slow process sometimes, building something like this from the ground up in a village. But we are sticking with it. We’re just local people doing what we know best. There is always something to do, whether it's checking the soil or talking to the bank folks about loans and supplies.