Every summer, something special happens. It begins in Sarlahi, deep in Nepal’s Terai plains, where the air is thick with sweetness and mango trees hang heavy with fruit. These mangoes don’t come from big plantations. They’re grown by smallholder families who’ve farmed these lands for generations. We work directly with them, selecting only the ripest, juiciest mangoes at just the right time.

From there, the mangoes make a long journey to our factory in Dhankuta, high in the eastern hills. That’s where the transformation begins where our team sorts, slices, and gently freeze-dries the fruit to lock in its flavor and goodness. Did you know it takes over 10 kilograms of fresh mango to make just 30 packs of our snack? That’s how real, concentrated, and honest our product is. This mango season has been our biggest yet, and the most demanding. Growth came fast. As orders soared, so did the complexities. More people in the factory meant more coordination, more training, more pressure. Our spaces felt smaller. Our days, longer. We found ourselves asking tough but necessary questions:

Do we expand our facility for the peak season, or adapt with what we have? Do we stay fully hand-processed, or introduce machines without losing the human touch? How do we scale without diluting the very essence of what we stand for ethical processing, dignified employment, and rural empowerment?

And then there’s the ongoing challenge of managing working capital. How do we buy in bulk at harvest, invest in packaging, pay seasonal staff all while waiting months for payments to arrive?

Yet through it all, it’s our people who’ve held us steady. Especially the women in our Dhankuta factory. This season, many worked 30 days straight without a single day off not because they had to, but because they cared. They knew every mango mattered, every hour counted. Their hands, their heart, their pride it’s in every bite.

At Khetipati Organics, growth is exciting. But staying grounded in our values that’s what makes it meaningful.