Malabarkisan Mitra Farmer Producer Company Limited

Our group is called Malabarkisan Mitra and we’re located in Nilambur, over in the Mampad Panchayat area. The specific spot is Panthalingal, Mepadam Post. It’s a beautiful part of Malappuram, but farming here is a lot of hard work. We are a farmer producer company, so it’s really just a bunch of neighbors from the local area who decided to work together. We deal with everything from planting to trying to find buyers who won't rip us off. It's not a glamorous life. Most days we are out in the sun or dealing with the monsoon rains. The office is just a place to keep the rain off our heads while we talk business. We don't use big words or have fancy presentations. We just talk about the price of rubber or how the coconut crop is looking this year. It’s a community thing. If one person’s crop fails, we all feel it. That’s why we started this company. We wanted to have each other's backs. It’s been a learning process for all of us. None of us were born business experts, we just learned as we went along. We make mistakes, but we keep moving forward. It’s just us kisan trying to make a decent life for our families in Malappuram. There is no shortcut to the work we do every day in the fields.