Chennai Vegetables Producer Company

Despite the name, Chennai Vegetables Producer Company is actually located in Village Mantalai. We are based at Rattan Chand’s place, right in the heart of the village. It’s a bit of a funny name for a company in this part of the country, but it’s what we have. We spend our days focusing on what can be grown in the soil around Mantalai. Most of us are farmers ourselves, so we know the local land better than anyone else. The office is just a simple room where we keep our registers and meet up when there’s something important to discuss. It’s not a place with air conditioning or sleek furniture. We have old wooden chairs and a lot of mud on our boots most days. Rattan Chand is usually there to greet people and talk about the vegetable prices. We work together to try and get our harvest out to the markets without losing too much to the middlemen. It’s a lot of physical labor and early mornings. Sometimes we are out in the fields before the sun is even up properly. We don’t have a website or a big advertising budget. We just rely on the fact that we grow decent vegetables and we work hard. People in Mantalai know who we are, and that’s enough for us to keep the business running year after year. It’s a practical, no-nonsense way to make a living for all of us.