Chhauhara Valley Farmers Producer Company Limited

We operate out of Khabal, which is a small spot in Shimla. Anil Kumar is the one who keeps things organized here at house number 1413. Chhauhara Valley Farmers Producer Company Limited is a beautiful name for a beautiful place, but the work we do is pretty basic. We are a farmer producer company, which means we spend most of our time looking at crops and talking to the people who grow them. The hills make transport a bit of a challenge, but we manage. Our office in Khabal is just a simple building. We have some old desks and a lot of registers. We don’t use much technology, mostly just pen and paper. Every morning we check the weather because that dictates our whole day. We drink a lot of tea while we discuss what needs to be shipped out. It’s a quiet life up here in the Shimla district. We don't have any big goals of becoming famous; we just want to make sure the valley’s produce gets where it needs to go. Sometimes the snow blocks the roads and we have to wait it out. That’s just part of being in Khabal. We are just local people trying to make a living. There’s no polish to what we do. It’s just raw work and a lot of mountain air. We take pride in the valley.