Navarathina Collective Farm Producer Company Limited

Our office is located at number 10/7 in the KRV Complex on Bungalow Street in Perundurai. If you know the Erode area, you know Bungalow Street is a pretty central spot. We are a collective, which basically means we are a bunch of local farmers who decided to work together. It’s easier to handle things as a group than trying to do everything alone. The office in the complex is where we meet to talk about crop prices and who is growing what. It’s a simple space with a few chairs and a lot of tea being drunk. We don’t have a fancy board of directors; just regular people who spend their days in the sun and their evenings looking at spreadsheets. Perundurai is a busy town, so there is always noise from the street coming through the windows. We try to help each other out with equipment and seeds. Sometimes we disagree on how to handle a certain pest or what to plant next, but we usually figure it out over a long conversation. It’s not always organized perfectly, and there’s often a bit of a mess with all the paperwork from different farms. But we get the job done eventually. We’ve been here for a while and most people in the Erode district know who we are. It’s just how we live and work together. We take things as they come.