Mr. Lineesh is a farmer from the Kuruma tribal community in the Wayanad district of Kerala. Unlike most of his community members, who work either as farmers or agricultural labourers, he has worked with an NGO in Wayanad viz. Shreyas for the past seven years. With his degree in BA in Politics, he started his career with the NGO as a community organiser to work with native tribal communities. His responsibilities include mobilising rural youth clubs, coordinating the activities of Self-Help Groups of Shreyas, watershed development programmes, and Save a Family-a tribal livelihood support plan. Of the total one hundred and sixty tribal colonies in which the NGO focused its interventions, forty colonies were managed by Mr. Lineesh. Besides he is a practicing farmer and cultivated coffee, spice crops and vegetables. However, his role and responsibility changed over the last two years, when th eNGO floated its own Shreyas Tr4ibal Farme4r Producer Company (STFPC) in 2018. He is presently functioning as the MD of the organisation of the tribal producers supported by Shreyas. Though the district has many as twenty farmer producer organisations working in commodities such as spices and plantation crops (Spice Board, 2021), STFPC is among the few farmer producer organisations, with native tribal farmers as its members. It mainly works in the post-harvest value chain operations such as procurement and marketing of commodities.