Kalpa Mithra Farmer Producer Company Limited

If you come looking for us, we are right near Vidhya Varadi School in Ballekattehuliyar Hobli. This part of Chikkanahalli is full of coconut trees. Most of the guys here spend their days looking up at the trees or husking coconuts until their hands get rough. We decided to put this group together because selling copra individually was getting tough. The school nearby is always noisy with kids, which is nice background sound while we work. Our office is a simple place, mostly just a spot to keep records and meet up. We don't have a fancy website or a marketing team. It’s just us farmers trying to figure out how to get a better price for what we grow. Sometimes the prices at the market drop for no reason and it hurts everyone. By being together as Kalpa Mithra, we feel a bit more steady. Most days involve a lot of walking around the groves. We talk about the pests or why one tree isn't yielding like it used to. It isn't easy work and the sun is pretty brutal in the afternoons. We drink a lot of tea and try to keep things moving. We aren't trying to change the world, just trying to keep our farms going for the next generation. It is better than doing it alone and failing. We share the equipment and the headaches too. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.