’Nilgiris’ is a hill district in the State of TamilNadu. Mettupalayam is a small town situate in Nilgiris.The villagers of the surrounding villages for theirlivelihood depend on growing of vegetables ... and tea. With aview to see that the small vegetable growers are notexploited by the vegetable merchants, a society known as’Nilgiris Cooperative Marketing Society Limited’ (Societyfor short) was formed as far back as in 1935 with only 116members.