Harsh Kothari

Farmveda

Farmveda (www.farmveda.in), is a for-profit social enterprise founded by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (professor, IIM Bangalore) in 2016 with investments from the Tata Trust and Infosys founders. He started working for farmers way back in 2003 through an NGO he set up called Centre for Collective Development (www.ccd.ngo). This organization promotes cooperatives and supports over 40,000 farmers as of today. After seeing the success of CCD, Farmveda was established with the mission of taking farmers further up the value chain. This was achieved by establishing a branded food manufacturing company (much along the lines of what Amul is to dairy farmers). Currently, Farmveda has traditional breakfast mixes and podis to offer. Some snacks and condiments are in the pipeline. Our USP is preservative-free, homemade-taste, nutritious food. Recently some peanut based products such as chocolate coated peanuts, roasted peanut chocolate bar and peanut butter have also been launched. Today there are over 30000 + farmers working together across 3 districts. The movement is slowly spreading to other States. As of now, only the profit goes to the farmers. In the long run, the ownership will also entirely go the farmers of India. That's why we say: Farmveda – owned by the farmers of India अन्नदाता सुखीभव: