The origin of HOPCOMS was in 1959[REF] when Mari Gowda, the then director of the department of horticulture, founded the Bangalore Grape Growers' Marketing and Processing Co-operative Society for promoting grape farming by providing farming know how to the grape farmers and arranging a marketing set up for their products.
The main activity of the society is the maintenance of a marketing system by which the farmers are ensured of a good price for their produces and the consumers are provided with quality goods at affordable prices.