If one positive could be drawn out of the devastating global covid 19 pandemic, it has made people more conscious about the need for healthier lifestyles and improved nutrition. This obviously comes with a challenge given the per capita arable land which is depleting by the day owing to deforestation, urbanization and erratic climatic patterns around the world. A paradigm shift in the way we practice agriculture is required to produce chemical free harvest and yet be able to obtain higher yields to cater to the ever-growing population. With the pan pandemic pandemonium, the dietary patterns have changed with more and more people opting for high end nutritive fresh foods rather than having supplements.
Hence it is the need of the era to focus on increasing productivity to meet the growing population needs also, the introduction of new innovative ecofriendly production methodologies has also paved pathway for more new comers into the segment of farming. To meet the growing food demand, agri inputs segment plays a crucial role. It is important that every single crop cultivated has to be given the right amount of nutrition and protected from all natural vagaries including the pest and disease management to maximize yield and productivity. No doubt, this is an ever-growing industry!
A Market Leader With Innovative Strategies
Agferm innovations is an agri-input research and manufacturing company incorporated in 2019, treading the path of continuous innovations to provide eco friendly, safe and effective solutions in the field of agriculture. An entire spectrum of products is rolled out from soil nutrition to plant protection that complies with IPM norms. Specific plant protection products that build in resistance and provide immunity for long term protection, nutritional products both macro and micro nutrients in bio-available forms that helps trigger overall plant growth.
Adding more about the inception story of the firm, nisha m.m founder & managing director of agferm says “my entire journey all through the years (2 decades) has always been to develop products with organic elements. Initially the results and consistency have always been challenging. Now we have nurtured the art of formulation and cost-effective production methodologies to minimize these issues. Conscious effort is put forth on the entire team to focus only on developing safe products.
The product acceptance across different climatic zones has been very encouraging. Although i do not recommend adopting combination of chemical and bio products, some feedback has been that combination sprays gives longer protection period from pest and diseases and some products exhibited knock down property similar to chemicals. We have achieved considerable increase in yield across different crops under different agro-climatic zones.
In a short span of time, Agferm is able to develop a reputation of being a cost effective certified organic solution provider for nutrition, pest and disease management of crops with efficacy as good as any chemical counterpart. The company also extended its product portfolio to
manufacture probiotics for veterinary use that has been widely accepted in the respective segment.
Agferm acknowledges the fact that the main problem faced by organic growers is non availability of genuine certified organic input solution provider be it fertilizer or plant protection products. Growers who export their produce opt for organic inputs to ensure residue free produce. Agferm consciously strategize to address such clients promoting or using residue free inputs. Their products are certified organic by internationally reputed certifying agency ecocert, as per npop standards under the guidelines of apeda (govt. Of India). The company also understand that most of the organic growers end up in low productivity as the pest and disease management becomes challenging. Adequate amount of macro and micro elements required for the crop are generally not met with organic inputs, which in effect leads to higher cost of production. Agferm offers a whole range of products from soil nutrition to growth and to pest and disease management that enables complete food for the crop cycle at affordable price.
Talking more about Agferm and their operations nisha says, “i have witnessed tremendous growth in agriculture sector, with emerging technologies new crops are being cultivated which are accepted by people. This has led to the introduction of newer molecules to meet the nutrition and plant protection requirement of crops. Besides, India has been witnessing erratic abiotic factors with extreme flood to drought to landslides under these circumstances we work on area or crop specific problems. We have been very successful in this approach by creating a solution provider for soil related or crop related specific issues. Agferm products are an easy pick which ensures chemical residue free produce when it comes to organic cultivation.
In a short span of time, agferm is able to develop a reputation of being a cost effective certified organic solution provider for nutrition, pest and disease management of crops with efficacy as good as any chemical counterpart
Working With Client-Centric Approach
The company offers customized products through their unique and proprietary bioprocess technology (BPT) wherein bioderivatives are used to develop safer products for integrated crop management and plant nutrition. BPT helps delivering products that enriches the ecosystem, through improved carbon cycle, a fundamental part of life on earth. Agferm in its mission as an organic solution provider has so far influenced over 200 odd clients both nationally and internationally and has built a proven record on all varied crop segments at different agro-climatic conditions benefitting over a lakh of farmers. Being a strong research-oriented company, they offer variety of customized unique products based on client requirement and are able to distinguish themselves in this segment.
Agferm has a distinct advantage in this space as all their products are proven for its relatively quick action and yield. Generally, the organic products are looked upon as something which is slow in action and requires repeated spray and hence becomes a costlier affair to farmers. Agferm has been able to overcome this myth. Their products are quick in action, some of them have knockdown and repellant property. Number of sprays required are as same as chemical application. The products are priced affordable much lesser than the chemical counterparts and hence able to capture a sizeable area of varied crops and is being widely acceptable among the farming community”.
“The company offers customized products through their unique and proprietary bioprocess technology (BPT) wherein bioderivatives are used to develop safer products for integrated crop management and plant nutrition”
R&d focusses on unique bio process that deploys specially designed equipment to mitigate biological, and economic constraints. This integrated manufacturing processes helps in obtaining environmentally acceptable and economically feasible purification process, that results into bio- organic derivatives with high quality, high purity, and consistency. The economics of their production process optimizes the product quality, application cost ultimately resulting in assured enhanced productivity with improved quality with affordable price.
Although, Agferm has been able to develop into front-runners in this segment, Nisha shares her concerns regarding certain regulatory aspects of the industry “this is definitely a growing industry, but as an organic solution provider the regulations are tough to compete with the normal chemical industry. Hopefully more players and new inventions in this segment will help overcome these issues. As a company our endeavor has always been to move into various allied segments like stored pest management, waste decomposition, new technologies in microbiological science with specialized approach in expanding our veterinary probiotic. However, our core area would be to customize new agri products to satisfy both national and international markets”.
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