Patode Wadgaon Farmer Producer Company Limited

If you walk over to House Number 160 in Patode Wadgaon, you will find the small office for Patode Wadgaon Farmer Producer Company Limited. It is just a regular village house that we have converted into a space where we can run the business. We didn't see any reason to waste money on a separate office when we are all living and working right here anyway. We started this whole thing because we wanted to have a bit more control over how our crops are sold at the end of the season. Mostly we deal with the grains and vegetables that grow best in this specific soil. It is hard work and the money we make is often very little. We don't have any staff or people in fancy uniforms. It is just us farmers taking turns to sit at the desk and try to make sense of the paperwork and the tax filings. Sometimes the room gets a bit cluttered with files and bags of seed samples, but we know where everything is. We focus on simple things like buying fertilizer in bulk so it is cheaper for everyone. One day we hope to buy a shared harvester to make the work easier. That is the goal we are working toward. Right now, we are just taking it one month at a time. We don't use any complicated words to describe what we do. We are just local people growing food and trying to pay our bills.