CoconutIndia.com: Founder's Journey and Success Story in CoconutIndia
For centuries, Indian farmers have been
the easy prey for the middlemen to earn more money. They never had the freedom
in choosing the markets for their produce. There was no platform for them to
meet the buyers. There was no awareness amongst them regarding the market and
taking the advantage of this ignorance, the traders and middlemen used to
exploit them. This crisis led Vijay Kumar to take the initiative called
CoconutIndia.com.
CoconutIndia.com
is an online portal that connects coconut farmers and buyers directly. It
allows the suppliers to bypass the traders and keep the full percentage of
profits due to direct sales. With the emergence of CoconutIndia.com in the
coconut industry, now coconut products can exported anytime and anywhere
throughout India. Moreover, it creates awareness of daily market rates for
coconuts and coconut products amongst the sellers and buyers. Since its
establishment in 2012, CoconutIndia.com is with-holding this connectivity
platform that has benefitted more than thousands of farmers. Currently,
CoconutIndia.com has a vast network of more
than 2300 farmers, 300 suppliers and 600 buyers.
In spite of being
an IT professional, Vijay Kumar always stayed connected to his agricultural roots.
He started CoconutIndia.com with a mission to avoid the middlemen and to avail
the farmers the availing better prices for their products. Vijay’s innovative
and unique ideas have led common men towards having a successful business. Through
this platform, he conducts buyer-supplier meets for coconut products all over
Tamil Nadu. Today, CoconutIndia.com is not only an online site for coconut business,
but a learning site for the farmers which clarifies their doubts with the help
of teaching faculties from Agricultural Institutes.
After completing
his job related duties, Vijay dedicates his time to train the farmers regarding
the manufacturing of 10 value added variants of coconut products. In 2016, he
also released a book in Tamil based on his training sessions. Also, there are
DVD versions of the same available in the market.
The next step in
the journey of CoconutIndia.com will be setting up a provision for farmers to
sell their produce directly through the website and through their amazon
account. Recently, it has also introduced a page to display the supplier stock.
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