Kothara Agriculture Producer Company Limited

Down in the Sasaram block, specifically in Vill Tolakothara, you’ll find us. We use Manoj Mishra’s house, number 223, as our main point of contact. Kothara Agriculture Producer Company Limited is what we call ourselves. We are all just local farmers from the Samardiha area who decided to work together. Farming alone is getting harder these days with all the changes in the market. We figured if we pooled our resources, we might have a better shot. It’s not a fancy operation. Most of our meetings happen sitting on the porch or standing in the dirt. We talk about the weather and how the rice or wheat is doing. It’s a simple life but it's ours. We don’t have a lot of money for big signs or advertising. We just rely on the fact that we know the land and we know each other. Working the soil in Sasaram takes a lot out of you, but we are used to it. We aren't trying to impress anyone with big numbers. We just want to make sure our kids have a future here. It’s a small-town thing, really. People helping people, that’s the way it has always been in our village and that is how we plan to keep it going. It is just us doing what we can with the land we have.