Talapad Farmer Producer Company Limited

If you go to Talsana in the Lakhtar area, you’ll eventually run into Mansukhbhai Sundarbhai. He is the person behind the address for Talapad Farmer Producer Company Limited. Surendranagar is a dry place, and you can feel it in the air most days. The ground is hard and the sun really beats down on us during the peak of the day. We set up this company to handle the local farming business right from Talsana. It’s a small operation, mostly just a few of us sitting around a table trying to make sense of the market and the weather. Mansukhbhai is usually around if you need to ask a question about what we are doing. We don't have a fancy corporate structure or layers of management. It is just us and the farmers from this part of the district. Sometimes the internet is slow or the power goes out, but we just wait it out. There are no big meetings with slides, just people talking in the local language about things that matter to our village. We keep our records in a few big folders and try to stay organized as well as we can. Being in Talsana means we are close to the fields, which is where we spend most of our time anyway. It’s a basic way of doing things but it is how we have always lived and worked in Surendranagar district. We just keep our focus on the daily tasks.