Mahabaleshwar Krushi Farmers Producer Company Limited

Up here in the hills of Mahabaleshwar, you can find us at Sahebrao Ramchandra Bhilare’s place. The address is 56A/1Bhilar in Tq. Mshwar. Most people think of this area just for holidays and picking strawberries, but for us, it is where we live and work every day of the year. Being part of Mahabaleshwar Krushi Farmers Producer Company Limited means we are all in this together. Farming on these slopes is not the same as farming on the flat plains. You have to deal with the mist, the heavy rains, and the way the ground holds water. We meet up at the house to talk about what is working and what is not. It is a very local thing. We do not have a big marketing team or anything like that. We are just a bunch of neighbors in Bhilar who realized we could do more if we stopped trying to do everything on our own. Sometimes the meetings go long because we end up talking about our families or the local news. It is honest work, and it is often tiring. We worry about the same things every other farmer does—pests, prices, and whether the tourists will leave the fields alone. We do not have a fancy office with air conditioning. We just have a place to sit, some tea, and a lot of work to get through before the sun goes down. It is our life, and we are sticking to it.