Kokanbhumi Mahila Farmer Producer Company Limited

Kokanbhumi Mahila Farmer Producer Company Limited is what we call our group in Ghadshiwadi, Kurne. Our address is House Number 542. Since we are in the Konkan area, things are a bit different here. The weather is very wet for a large part of the year. The office is just a house where we women meet up. We have to walk through a lot of greenery to get there. It’s a very local thing. We don't have any outsiders telling us what to do. We mostly talk about the cashew or mango crops or whatever else is growing in the wadi. The rain can be so heavy that we can't even leave the house for days. When that happens, the company work just stops. We don’t have any fancy technology to work from home. We just wait it out. At the house, we have some old benches and a table where we keep the membership records. It’s a lot of work to manage everything ourselves. We don't have a lot of experience with the legal side of things, so we often have to ask for help from the clerks in town. But we are learning. The name Kokanbhumi is important to us because this land is all we have. We aren't looking to become a huge corporation. We just want to make sure the women here get a decent price for their hard work.