Agricultural Finance Corporation

If you walk past B 3 98 on the ground floor in Janakpuri, you’ll see our office. It’s right there in New Delhi 110058, easy enough to find if you know the block. We handle the money side of farming here. It sounds more complicated than it is. Mostly, it’s just folks coming in to talk about their loans or how they’re going to pay for new equipment. The ground floor location is good because people don’t have to climb stairs, which is nice when it’s hot outside. The city noise from Janakpuri filters in, but we mostly ignore it while we’re looking at ledgers. There’s a lot of paper around. Even though everything is on computers now, we still seem to have stacks of files on every desk. It’s just the way it works. We’ve seen a lot of different seasons come and go from this office. Sometimes it feels like we spend more time talking about the weather with the farmers than we do about the actual finance part, but that’s how it goes in this business. We don't have any fancy decorations or a lobby that looks like a bank. It’s just a place to get work done. We try to keep things straightforward and honest with everyone who walks through the door. It’s just us, sitting at our desks, trying to help make things work for the people growing the food. We keep a pot of tea going most mornings, and there's always a chair for anyone who needs to sit and go over their numbers for a bit.