Haroon Farmer Organisation Producer Company Limited

Down here in Nadigam-B shopian, specifically around Lane No. 5, things stay pretty busy for us. Haroon Farmer Organisation Producer Company Limited is run out of House Number 02. We are just a bunch of local farmers who decided that working together was better than working alone. Shopian is a place where you have to be tough because the winters can really settle in and stop everything. We spend our spring and summer months out in the dirt, making sure everything is growing right. It is not a clean job. Our boots are always muddy and our clothes are stained from the work. We don't have a marketing department or anyone to write fancy letters for us. We just talk to each other over the fences or on the road. Most of the guys involved have been farming since they were kids, taught by their fathers and grandfathers. We deal with the same problems every year, like late frosts or bugs eating the leaves. We just try to get through the season and hope we have enough to show for it when the trucks come to pick up the produce. It is a simple operation and we like it that way. We don't need things to be complicated. We just want to do our work, get a fair price, and go home to our families at the end of the day. It’s a hard life but a good one.