Radaipally Farmers Producer Company

Our company, Radaipally Farmers Producer Company, is located at House Number 3-45 in Gidda. It’s not a big operation, just a bunch of us from the village who wanted to work together instead of always competing or struggling alone. The office is really just a place for us to gather and plan out our upcoming seasons. Most of the time, we are out on our farms, so the building sits quiet until the late evening. When we do meet, there is a lot of talk about the crops and who needs help with their tilling or harvesting. Gidda is a small place, and we all know each other’s business anyway, so it felt natural to start this. We aren't trying to be anything we aren't. We don't have a marketing department or a fancy logo on the wall. We just have our land and our tools. By pooling our resources together, we can get things like fertilizer a bit cheaper and maybe get a better price when it’s finally time to sell. It’s been a learning process for all of us, dealing with the paperwork and the banking side of things. We make mistakes sometimes, but we keep moving forward. It’s just how life is for us here in the village—working the land and hoping for a good return on our sweat and our time. Every year is a gamble with the weather, but we do it anyway. That is really the whole story.