Tharagampatti Dairy Farmer Producer Company Limited

You’ll find us at 14/75 on the Trichy Main Road in Mylampatty. Being right on the main road means it gets a bit noisy with the trucks going by, but it’s a good spot for us. We are all dairy farmers around here. Every morning and every evening, it’s the same routine: milking the cows and getting the milk ready. Tharagampatti Dairy Farmer Producer Company Limited is just our way of working together so we aren't all alone in this. Cows are a lot of work; they don't take holidays and they need feeding no matter what. We spend a lot of time cleaning out the sheds and making sure the animals are healthy. It’s a dusty, earthy kind of life. We meet up at the building on the main road to talk about feed prices and how much milk we’re getting. It’s not a corporate boardroom; it’s just a place with a few benches and a lot of milk cans. Sometimes the equipment breaks down and we have to scramble to fix it before the milk spoils. It’s stressful, but we’re used to it. We aren't looking for awards or anything. We just want to provide for our families and keep the dairy going. It’s honest work, and it keeps us busy from dawn till dusk, seven days a week, without many breaks for anything else.