Karpoori Farmer Producer Company Limited

Karpoori Farmer Producer Company Limited is based in the Basti district. Our office is near the Bardand Post Office in a place called Kusuru Khurd, which is in the Bakhira area. We are a local group of farmers who decided it was time to work together as a team. In Basti, farming is the main way people make a living, and we have been doing it for a long time. We grow the usual crops that you see all over this part of Uttar Pradesh. The company is our way of making sure that small farmers like us don't get ignored by the big markets. We work out of a small space near the village. It is not fancy at all, just a few desks and some chairs where we can sit and talk. Most of our time isn't spent in that room, though. You will usually find us out where the crops are growing in the dirt. We spend a lot of time talking about the rain, the bugs, and the prices at the local mandi. It is a very practical and honest way of living. We don't have a mission statement or anything like that. We just want to get a fair price for the crops we work so hard to produce. It feels like we are just one big family. We help each other with planting and harvesting whenever it is needed. It’s a tough life sometimes, but we are used to it.