Babu Suraj Singh Farmer Producer Company Limited

Well, we are based out here in Bisundari, which is a small part of Chandauli. The name on the paper is Babu Suraj Singh Farmer Producer Company Limited, but around here, everyone just knows the family name. My father Suraj Singh’s house is where most of the paperwork happens during the day. It is not some big glass building like you see in the cities. We have some plastic chairs, a wooden table that wobbles a bit, and a lot of registers filled with notes about what the farmers in the village are growing this season. Chandauli is known for rice, and that is mostly what we deal with day in and day out. Sometimes the power goes out for hours and we just sit outside under the neem tree talking about the weather or the price of seeds at the market. It started because a few of us realized that selling things alone was getting harder every year. So, we got together and made it official. There is nothing very professional about how we run things, we just try to be fair and keep track of who brought what. The roads around here get pretty muddy when it rains, so sometimes people can't make it to the office for a week. We just wait it out. It is a slow life, but we are keeping busy with the crops. We don't have a website or anything like that, just this address and a few phones to call the mandi.