Umarkhed Parisar Aditya Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our group, Umarkhed Parisar Aditya Farmers Producer Company Limited, is set up over at Shri Vilas Vitthalrao Chavan’s place in Gokulnagar. Being in Umarkhed, we have a lot of good land, but it takes a lot of coordination to make things work out right. We aren't professional businessmen in suits; we're just people who know the soil around here. We decided to put our resources together to see if we could get a better handle on the supplies we need and where we sell our harvest. It’s a lot of trial and error sometimes. One year the rain is too much, the next it’s not enough, so we try to help each other stay afloat. We meet up in Gokulnagar to talk about what we’re going to plant and how we can help the smaller farms in the area get their produce moved. It’s hard work, and the office side of it is mostly just us sitting around a table with some ledgers. We don't have any big secrets or fancy techniques. We just use what we’ve learned from our fathers and try to add a bit of modern organization to it. It’s a community thing more than anything else. We all live here, and we all want to see the local farming community do okay. It's a lot of talking, a lot of working, and trying to stay ahead of the bills and the seasons.