Gaikcrop Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group, Gaikcrop Farmer Producer Company Limited, is based right at Rameshwar Murlidhar Gaikwad’s house, which is number 32 in Garaj. If you know the Vaijapur area, you know how it gets during the harvest season. Everything is busy and there is dust everywhere. We started this because we realized that individually, none of us had much say in how our crops were sold. Now that we are together, things feel a little more stable. It is not like we are some huge corporation with a lot of money. Most days, we are just sitting on the porch at the house, looking over the books or planning when to take the trucks out. We deal with the same problems every other farmer in Aurangabad deals with, like the price of fertilizer going up or the water getting low in the wells. We don't use any big words to describe what we do. We just grow stuff and then we try to find the best way to get it to the people who need it. There are no polished speeches here. Sometimes the paperwork gets a bit messy and we have to spend all afternoon fixing it, but that is part of the job. We are just local people from Garaj who know the land and want to make sure our work actually pays off at the end of the day.