“The idea of acquiring our very own packing facility was born a handful of yrs back”

Indian grape and pomegranate farmers have a new packhouse to mail their produce to. Magnus Farms is a new business that is stepping into the industry at a complicated time. Pomegranate generation has dropped by 70% owing to untimely rains and grape exporters have experienced a horrible 12 months last yr, and as a result are careful this year. Magnus Farms attempts to provide farmers much more security, by giving access to improved wellness treatment for both of those the farmers and their people.

Right after having worked in the refreshing develop sector in India for the past decade, Girish Sarda resolved to build his possess brand, with its very own packhouse and vision. “I’ve been working with national and worldwide companies for lots of a long time and have been effective in producing new marketplaces, apart from building their present markets, to sell Indian top quality generate. India is a fantastic source for quality agriculture products and with my awareness and knowledge, I caught maintain of the actual nerve of the international as well as countrywide marketplace and assumed that I could justify the tricky get the job done of the Indian growers by providing them the very best and suitable rate of their make.”  

“For the very last 10 years I have labored with other exporter organizations aid them to establish their brand with excellent volumes of around 1.5 million containers in 100 days of grapes and pomegranate export year, but the facilities were being rented and I identified it difficult to regulate 4-5 amenities to entire the software. And, therefore an strategy of obtaining our very own facility was born all over a few decades back. I began working towards it stage-by-move, it was my desire to excel in my occupation by creating our own brand referred to as Magnus Farm for Indian produce in the global sector.” Sarda clarifies.

Magnus Farms isn’t a solo entity, it offers alone as an association amongst growers and exporters. To give the farmers a lot more than what was currently offered to them, Sadra states that a packhouse in the heart of Nashik was built: “The exceptional providing place of Magnus Farm is the reality it’s an affiliation among growers and the experienced experienced workforce in the export of create. These growers have been doing work with us for a lot of a long time and would like to be aspect of the export company, by giving their good quality make to the supermarkets. Our new packing facility is situated in the center of the output region of Nashik, which cultivates about 90% of the Indian grapes that are exported. It’s a large facility applying state-of-the-artwork technological know-how owning a potential of close to 90-100 MT packing for each working day and owning the scope to double the ability along with other processed food stuff creation. The facility also has obtain to state-of-the-artwork machinery from Germany and other gear from several worldwide suppliers. It has been developed with all intercontinental norms in head.”

Sarda has taken an added action by providing farmers and their families with a Overall health Card, supplying them accessibility to better health care. “In the 1st calendar year of the organization itself, we have launched “Magnus Kisan (Farmer) Overall health Card” for our growers, their households and workers to address their healthcare emergencies. As of now, no one has such CSR exercise in Indian generate promoting. We as Magnus Farm want our growers and workers keep healthful and under no circumstances ever encounter any medical crisis. Having this card in their pocket presents them accessibility to better facilities and cost-helpful procedure in Nashik.”

As the business is new, it’s total of ambition and ambitions for coming yrs: “Our goal is to further fortify our association with the growers. Not only for grapes and pomegranates, but in the coming a long time our focus will also be on other fruits, greens and processed meals. Secondly, we aim to set up ourselves in the intercontinental market by providing high-quality make to our present supermarkets and insert far more stores in the present market into our basket. We’d also like to greatly enhance and distribute our existence about the globe sooner as a to start with choice for international consumers.” Sarda states.

As Magnus Farms will tackle pomegranates in their packhouse, Sarda has found a worrying period so much, as rains have lead to sizeable losses to the crop: “This year’s condition with pomegranate output is disastrous as 70% of the crops had been misplaced because of to premature heavy rains past Oct. Commonly, we export 35-40 containers throughout December to March, but this 12 months up until now, not a single shipment has been despatched out. Major rainfall brought on much less availability, majorly for modest sizes and some internal browning. We hope there will be some window in the Asian market for February to June of this yr and will program our next harvest for European current market.”

The Indian grape time was quite tough previous calendar year, and this 12 months appears to be to be just as complicated, resulting in farmers to be far more careful about the year. “Last calendar year there had been a number of hurdles for Indian grapes export, which experienced a significant effects and caused a ton of the money losses. This calendar year growers and exporters are very cautious about the export, as a lot of EU international locations are under lockdown, as perfectly as British isles currently being entirely locked down till the finish of February. Until finally now, our export shipments are in between 30% and 50% a lot less than they have been previous yr all through the similar period of time for EU and Russia respectively. We experienced rains in the to start with 7 days of January and are now dealing with cold weather in the night time, ensuing in uneven brix concentrations in a bunch of grapes. Nonetheless, the ingesting high quality and shelf lifestyle of the grapes is considerably improved than it was very last year. We count on the situation will strengthen throughout 7 days 5 or 6, as the temperature forecast is demonstrating some increase in temperature for up coming week.” Sarda concludes.

For far more data:
Girish Sarda
Magnus Farms
Tel: +919167479099
Email: [email protected]  
www.magnusfarm.com