Venket Coconut Products

Our place is over at 190 Rajendra Nagar, which is right near the Anna Buildings. If you are in the area, you can’t really miss it because of the piles of coconuts. We deal with coconut products, mostly processing the raw nuts we get from the local growers. It’s a very hands-on job. We spend a lot of time outside in the yard or in the open shed. It gets pretty dusty and the air is always thick with that coconut smell. We have a small crew of workers who have been with us for a while. We start early in the morning before it gets too hot to work comfortably. By the afternoon, we are usually loading up sacks to be sent out. The equipment we use is pretty basic and it needs a lot of maintenance because of the grit that gets inside everything. We don't have a proper office, just a corner with a table and some ledgers where we keep track of the daily loads. Sometimes the neighbors come by to chat or complain about the noise, but we try to keep things orderly. It’s a lot of physical labor, and at the end of the day, everyone is pretty tired. We just keep doing what we know how to do. There’s no big secret to it, just moving coconuts and making sure they are ready for whatever they are being used for. It’s been our routine for years now at this location and we just keep at it.