Spices Plus Farmers Producer Company Limited

Out here in Mudigere Taluk, we put together Spices Plus Farmers Producer Company Limited. It’s a group of us who actually grow the stuff. We realized a while back that selling together makes more sense than everyone doing their own thing and getting nowhere. Mudigere has good soil for what we grow, mostly different spices that people use every day. It’s not just about farming though; there is a lot of meetings and trying to figure out the best way to get our crops to the market. We aren't professionals in suits, just farmers who know our land. The weather can be a real pain sometimes, either too much rain or not enough, which changes everything for our harvest. We spend a lot of time in the fields and then even more time drying and sorting the spices. It’s a slow process if you want to do it right. We don't use any fancy machinery for everything, a lot of it is still done by hand because that’s how we’ve always known. Being a producer company means we all have a say in how things go. It’s been a learning curve for all of us, especially with the rules and the paperwork. We just want to make sure our families are taken care of and our crops don't go to waste. It is a tough life but we are used to it and we just keep working.