Bhadra Farmers Producer Company Limited

You can find us at House Number 110 on Cinema Talkies Road in Bhanuvalli. It’s right there in the Harihar taluk of Davanagere. Being near the old cinema road means there’s always people walking by and popping their heads in. We are a group of local farmers who decided to pool our resources together. It’s a pretty basic operation. We use the front room of the house as our main office. Most days, it’s just full of bags of seed or samples of grain we’ve harvested. We talk a lot about the weather and the Bhadra river levels because that’s what matters to our crops. We aren't trying to be fancy or sound like some big city corporation. We just want to get a better price for what we grow. Sometimes the computers act up or the power goes out, and we just end up sitting on the porch talking shop. It’s a community thing as much as a business. Everyone in Bhanuvalli knows the house. We handle the sorting and the paperwork right here. It’s a lot of manual work, keeping track of what every member brings in. We don't have a big staff, just a few of us who know the land and the people around here. It gets dusty and loud when the trucks come through, but that’s the way we like it. We have been working out of this house for a while now and it suits us just fine. No reason to change things.