The Farmer Who Built an Empire for Other Farmers: The Story of Varanashi Subraya Bhat
A Class 10 dropout from a small village near Bantwal, Varanashi Subraya Bhat turned a collapsing areca nut market into CAMPCO, one of India's largest farmer cooperatives. His chocolate factory in Puttur, inaugurated by a sitting President of India, remains a symbol of what Coastal Karnataka's farmers built for themselves.
Varanashi Subraya Bhat
Founder President, CAMPCO