Agriculture Industry forms the major component of the Indian economy, contributing both to the GDP and employment. Agriculture employs more than 50 percent of the Indian workforce and seed companies are a major part of the agriculture industry. India is a fast growing and highly evolving market and has many established and emerging players in the sector. It is challenge to provide high yielding, superior quality seeds to the farmers. Enters Durga Seeds, a pioneer in vegetable seed production and marketing. Durga Seeds has been in the business of seed production and marketing for the last 51 years.
Based in Chandigarh, Durga Seed Farm was established in 1969 by Sh. Subhash Mahajan with the sole aim to provide best quality seeds to the Indian farmers and it has delivered successfully for three generations now. Durga Seeds specializes in production of open pollinated seeds, hybrid seeds, sprouts and microgreen seeds and has a vast network of trusted farmers all across the country. Working closely with the farmers has also allowed Durga Seeds to enter the export market and today it exports seeds to more than 20 countries around the world.
With the growing availability of spurious seeds in the market, the biggest challenge Durga Seeds or any reputed seed company faces in present times is to make sure the farmers are provided with the best quality seeds. Their research and development team and scientists strive all year round to come up with new, better yielding varieties of seeds. For the commercial agriculture sector, Durga Seeds is constantly introducing new hybrids with specific hardy traits, allowing the crop to be more disease tolerant, and yield better.
As the crucial link between the researchers and farmers, Durga Seeds has managed to become a leader in quality seed production and marketing for the benefits of farmers and other stakeholders. With the core mission of quality and sustainability, Durga Seeds has established itself as a vendor for more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fodder and flower seeds. Durga Seeds is also well equipped with latest technology for processing seed , quality check for seed grading and vigour and multiple cold storage units to increase the longevity of the seed.
Karan Mahajan Partner Durga Seeds co-founded a startup which launched an online portal 'Allthatgrows', focused on the needs of the urban gardner. Through this portal they became the first company to introduced the concept of micro green seeds in India. With more than 30 types of microgreen seeds, All that grows wants to promote the idea of home-grown greens and the nutritional significance behind them, considering they can contain up to 40 times more nutrition than mature vegetables.
Durga seeds has managed to become a leader in quality seed production with the advancement of agriculture in india
Durga Seeds is one of the oldest seeds companies in the country and it aims to strengthen its position as one of the leaders in providing the farmers with the best varieties of vegetable seeds through constant efforts of its Research and Development team. “Durga seeds aims to bring in innovations while maintaining the standard of quality to boost produce in the nation. After all, food should be a right for all and not just a privilege for few. Durga seeds aims to keep growing and providing best quality seeds to the Indian farmers. Our focus is not growth based on profitability. Our focus is that with our growth our network of happy farmers should also grow”, signs off Karan Mahajan.
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