Varunika Farmer Producer Company Limited

Dhanora is where we are based, specifically at Avinash Gangadhar Kakde’s place. It’s in the Sillod Taluka, quite a bit away from the main city noise. We are a farmer producer group, which basically means a bunch of us from the nearby fields decided to join up. You won't find any corporate boardrooms here. We usually sit around a wooden table or just outside when the weather is nice. We talk about the crops, the price of seeds, and how the soil is holding up this year. Being in a rural area like Dhanora means we are at the mercy of the seasons. When it rains, everything stops, and when it's dry, we are all out there working twice as hard. Our company is really just about the people who grow the food. We use Avinash’s house as our main point of contact. Sometimes we have meetings that go on too long because everyone has a different opinion on how to handle the harvest. It is a messy, real kind of life. We don't have a marketing department or anything like that. We just know how to farm. Most of us have been doing this since we were kids. We are just trying to make things a little easier for the families around here by working together. It’s a lot of hard work and not much sleep during the peak season when everything needs to be done at once.