Sri Varanasi Subraya Bhat | CoopPeople | CoopWiki

Life Period: 1927 – 2000
Region: Mangaluru / Coastal & Malnad regions
Role: Founder-Chairman of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited (CAMPCO).
Core Contributions: Single-handedly rescued the arecanut farming community of Karnataka and Kerala from ruin during a massive price crash engineered by private trading cartels in the early 1970s. He brought growers across state lines together to register CAMPCO in 1973, establishing a transparent procurement floor-price network. To scale up, he built a state-of-the-art cooperative chocolate factory in Puttur, turning CAMPCO into a multi-million-dollar brand that shattered multinational confectionery monopolies.
Corporate Identity: The detailed narrative of his organizational intervention is maintained on the primary CAMPCO Institutional History Portal.