About TUMCOS

Tota Utpannagala Marata Sahakara Sangha Niyamith popularly known as "TUMCOS" is one of the leading arecanut and black pepper growers society in Karnataka established  in the year 1984, founded by Shri Marulappa R, having its registered office at Channagiri Davanagere district, expanded its area of operation to four districts Davanagere, Chithradurga, Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga. Our present shareholder strength crossed 13800 number. We are having eight branches functioning at Channagiri, Santebennur, Tavarekere, Sagarapete,Holalkere,Tarikere,Arahatolalu-Kaimara and Honnali. 

In 1984 with a membership base of 113 & paid share capital of 0.53 lakh, now it has 14397 members with a total paid up share capital of 1113.69 lakh. The area of operation of the society covers arecanut growers of 4 districts. With the success of market interventions, the society moved on to promote growers to adopt the most appropriate technologies in production, primary processing at producer level, bagging and storage. The society has been promoting e-auctioning of areca by utilizing Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) electronic platform. The grower members are getting a fair market prices also timely payment for their produce. It also provides agricultural inputs, such as seeds, planting material, fertilizers, herbicides, drip irrigation equipments and other accessories. It has set up a semi automated areca grading and packing unit to give the benefit of value addition to members and has also created adequate storage facilities, enabling it to undertake large scale pledge loan operations.   A recipient of the 'Best Cooperative Society Award' from the Government of Karnataka as a part of centenary celebrations of Cooperative Year - 2007 , it is also a recipient of the "Laxmanrao Inamdar National Award for Cooperative Excellence" , 2017 Instituted by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare for Outstanding performance in credit activities.  

Our Vision

To be globally respected co-operative society that provides total agri solution, preffered arecanut marketing partner for our farmers and leveraging technology with aim to achieve 20 crore profit organization in next five year.

Our Mission

Mission is to deliver the systemic, scientific and organized areca crop production techniques, loan disbursement, agri inputs, health benefits and marketing services for farmers through trust, quality and on time service.