Veppur 10K Farmers Producer Company Limited

You can find us at 3/239 on South Street in Kudikaadu, which is part of Kilamathur. The name has "10K" in it because we started with the idea of bringing together a large number of farmers from across the Veppur region. It's a lot of people to coordinate, and honestly, it’s a bit of a mess sometimes. We are all just regular farmers from the local villages. We have our small plots and we deal with the same problems like water shortages or the price of diesel going up. By being a company, we can buy things in bulk, which saves us a few rupees here and there. The office in Kudikaadu is a plain building where we keep the registers and have our meetings. It’s usually crowded on market days. We don't use any fancy management techniques. We just talk through what needs doing and who is going to do it. Some of us are older and have been farming for forty years, while some are younger and want to try new ways of doing things. There is a lot of back and forth between the generations. It’s a community effort more than anything else. We are just trying to survive the seasons and make sure the land stays healthy for the next group. It’s honest work, even if it’s exhausting. Most of us are just glad to have some support from our neighbors.