Mandara Farmers Producer Company Limited

If you go near the Gowridevi Temple in Doddaullarthi, you will find us. We are the Mandara Farmers Producer Company Limited. Challakere is a place where you have to be tough because it gets very dry and the sun is hot. Chitradurga district isn't for people who give up easily. We are just a bunch of locals who decided to group up. The temple is a landmark everyone knows, so we stayed close to it. We deal with the crops that grow well in this heat. It’s a lot of sitting around and planning how to share the water and the tools we have. We don't have a polished story to tell. We just show up every day and do the chores. Some days are better than others. We handle everything from getting seeds to figuring out where to sell the harvest. It's better than trying to do it all by yourself. We aren't looking for awards or anything like that. We just want to keep the farms going. The people here have been doing this for generations, and we are just the latest ones trying to make it work. It's a practical arrangement. We know each other's families and we know the land we walk on. That's all there is to it really. We help each other out when a tractor breaks down or the rain misses our patch of ground. It is just basic survival and working together.