Sriyami Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our place is at House No. 48 in Malangaon, which is part of the K. Mahankal area in Sangli. It is just a typical village house. Sriyami Farmers was started because we felt like we needed some kind of common platform to work from. In Sangli, we have our own way of doing things, especially with the specific crops that grow well here. The rain is never certain, so having a group really helps when things get difficult. We do not have a big staff or any of that. It is just the local farmers who actually own and work the land around here. We handle the sales and the buying of our supplies together to save a bit of money. Sometimes we meet under the trees or just at the house to talk about the latest market rates. It isn’t always a smooth ride, to be honest. There are days when we really worry about the harvest or how much it costs to transport things to the city. But that is just the way farming goes. We do not use any complicated words or corporate talk to describe what we do. We just grow crops and try to make sure we do not lose money at the end of the year. The office at Malangaon is where we keep all the records. It is usually a bit messy with papers, but we know where everything is. We are just regular people working the land and trying to stay afloat.