Kodikathakumaran Farmer Producer Company Limited

If you head out to Vilapatti Po in Ilupur Talukamaruhtampatti, you’ll find us at No.61. We are a bunch of farmers who decided to team up as Kodikathakumaran Farmer Producer Company Limited. It’s a quiet place, away from the main noise of the bigger towns. We spend our time looking at the crops and worrying about the water supply. That's the main thing on everyone's mind here. We have all sorts of people involved, some young and some who have been farming for fifty years. We learn a lot from the older folks who remember how things used to be. The work is tough on the back, and the sun is usually pretty hot. We don’t have much in the way of fancy equipment, but we make do with what we have. Sometimes the harvest is good, and sometimes it’s just okay. That’s just the way it goes with farming. We meet at the office to sort out the paperwork, which none of us really likes doing. We’d much rather be outside in the dirt. It’s a simple operation based on being honest and working hard. We know all the families around here, and they know us. We just want to keep our farms going and maybe make things a little easier for the next generation. It’s a lot of long hours, but it’s what we know and what we’ve always done.