Cuddalore Collective Farming Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group is the Cuddalore Collective Farming Farmer Producer Company Limited. We have our small office at No.45, Mariyamman Kovil Street in V.Pethankuppam Village. It's right near the Vanamadevi Post area. We are all people from around here who have spent our lives on the farm. It seemed like a good idea to finally put our heads together and form a collective. It’s hard to do everything alone, especially when you need to rent machinery or buy large amounts of seed. Now we just share those things. It’s a lot of coordination, and sometimes we disagree on things, but we always figure it out. We are just regular folks. You will see us around the village every day. We don't have a big corporate strategy. We just look at the weather and the soil and try to do the best we can with what we have. Sometimes the market is good to us, and sometimes it isn't. But being a producer company helps us get a slightly better deal than we would on our own. It’s about looking out for one another in the village. We’ve got a lot of history here, and we want to make sure the next generation can keep farming if they want to. It's just hard work and being good neighbors to each other while we work the land.