The Lahaul Potato Growers Cooperative Marketing Cum Processing Society Limited

Up here with The Lahaul Potato Growers Cooperative Marketing Cum Processing Society Limited, things move with the seasons. When it is harvest time, the whole place at Lahoul Potato Growers Corporative Marketing Cum Processing Society Ltd is buzzing with activity. We have bags of potatoes stacked everywhere and the smell of the earth is thick in the air. It is a cooperative, so it is really about the local farmers bringing in what they have grown in the hills. We spend a lot of time sorting through the stock and making sure everything is recorded properly in the big books. The weather can be a real challenge, especially when the cold starts to bite, but everyone just wraps up warm and keeps moving. It is not a shiny modern facility, but it works for what we need. We handle the marketing and the processing, which just means a lot of manual labor and keeping track of where the trucks are going. Most of us have been involved with potatoes for most of our lives, so we know what we are looking at. It is a simple way of living and working, tied directly to the land around us. We don't go in for fancy talk or complicated systems. We just make sure the growers get their fair shake and the potatoes get to where they are supposed to go.