Parangipettai Neithal Jeevidam 10K Farmer Producer Company Limited

Out here at 23 Kother Street in Parangipettai, we have started this group called Parangipettai Neithal Jeevidam 10K Farmer Producer Company Limited. It’s a mouthful of a name, we know that. Most of us are just local farmers who decided it was better to work as one group instead of everyone doing their own thing all the time. Being near the coast means we have to deal with the salt air and the wind, but that’s just part of living in Parangipettai. Our office on Kother Street is pretty basic, just a few chairs and some papers everywhere. It’s where we meet up to talk about the crops and who needs what for the next season. We don't have any fancy marketing people telling us what to say. We just talk like we always do over tea. Sometimes the meetings go long because everyone has a different opinion on how to handle the soil or the seeds. But we usually figure it out in the end. It’s a community effort, really. We wanted to make sure the smaller farms had a way to keep going. We aren't trying to be some huge corporation. We just want to make sure our families can keep farming like they always have. If you walk down Kother Street, you’ll find us easily enough. Someone is usually there during the day, unless we are all out in the fields working on the land.