Sri Dhaya Farmers Producer Company Limited

Our place is at No.65D on Keela Vadampooki Street in Mannargudi. It’s a well-known area in Thiruvarur. We go by Sri Dhaya Farmers Producer Company Limited. We started this because we saw how hard it was for individual farmers to get anything done on their own. Mannargudi is a place where agriculture is everything. You can't walk down the street without seeing someone who works the land. We’ve all been doing this for a long time. The office isn’t anything special to look at. It’s just a room where we can sit down, have some tea, and talk about the prices for the season. We deal with whatever is growing in the fields around Thiruvarur. Some days are good, some are pretty tough when the rain doesn't come or the pests get into the crops. We don't have any big marketing plans or anything like that. We just want to make sure the farmers who belong to our group don't get left behind. We share the equipment when we can and try to find the best way to sell what we harvest. It’s a lot of talking and a lot of waiting on the weather. Most of us are more comfortable in the fields than in the office, but you have to do the paperwork to keep things legal. We’re just local folks trying to keep the farming tradition going in Mannargudi. It is hard work, but we take it one day at a time.