Ulayatpur Agro Farmer Producer Company Limited

In Ulayatpur, which is a bit of a trek out in Etah, we’ve set up our company at Meera Devi’s house. She’s been a big part of getting us organized. We are just a local bunch of growers who realized that we were getting a raw deal by ourselves. Now we pool our crops together and try to find better ways to get them to the buyers. It’s a slow process and we’ve had to learn a lot about how to run a business on paper. Some days it feels like we spend more time talking than farming, but it’s necessary to keep things going. Etah is a place where you have to be tough to get by. The soil is okay, but you really have to work for every bit of yield you get. We don't use any fancy words to describe what we do. We grow things, we pack them, and we sell them. That’s about it. There’s no mission statement on the wall, just a calendar and maybe some notes about who owes what. We are just trying to make sure that the people in Ulayatpur who do the hard work actually get to keep a fair share of the profit. It’s a simple operation run by simple people. We don't have big dreams of taking over the world; we just want to take care of our own patch of ground in 207001.