NAMDHARI FRESH

Namdhari's Fresh (NF), a unit of Namdhari Seeds started in 2000 at Bangalore - 'The Garden City of India', with a view to export fresh vegetables and provide a premium quality produce to domestic customers. Namdhari Seeds is a market leader in Indian Vegetable Seed Industry and a leading Exporter of Vegetables and Flower Seeds.

Namdhari’s Fresh grows vegetables and fruits in its own fields and green houses. To meet the growing demand for fresh vegetables it also out sources produce from over 2000 growers.

Presently, more than 40 different vegetables and fruits are being cultivated by Namdhari's Fresh at various productions centers across the country.

The different agro-climatic zones enable us to produce most vegetables all round the year. European standards of Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) are strictly followed at production level.

Namdhari's Fresh handles more than thousand tons of fresh vegetables and fruits at domestic and International market. Our produces are mainly destined to Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Namdhari's Fresh would be India's first company to receive the EUREP-GAP (European Retailers Certified Vegetable Growing and Exporting Firm) certificate, which is an assurance for our high quality standards.

After the success in seed world, Namdharis have diversified into the production, distribution and export of fresh vegetables & fruits under the name "Namdhari's Fresh".

Uninterrupted Cold Chain

To ensure the freshness of the vegetables till it reaches the consumer, the company is having a continuous cold chain network right from the produce is harvested. The harvested vegetables are transported in refrigerated trucks, which also help in the removal of field heat. From the refrigerated trucks, the vegetables are transferred to the precooling room.

Then the vegetables are transferred to the grading hall, which is also air conditioned and packed under cool climate. The packed vegetables are stored in the cold rooms before being air lifted to the destinations and during the transit in the air also, the product is stored in reduced temperature. Thus the uninterrupted cold chain network makes Namdhari's Fresh to deliver the quality vegetables with optimum freshness. The good number of Flights per week to Europe guaranties a regular supply of produce.

Thus by amalgamating both self growing activities and outsourcing from large number of farmers Namdhari’s Fresh aspires to become a successful organized food retailer.

Vegetable production

Minimum use of chemical pesticides is the core of their Quality Policy. For crop protection they rely on the bio agents, and other Integrated Pest Management practices rather than the conventional indiscriminate use of pesticides. The chemicals permitted as per European norms are used and properly recorded. The produces grown by them could be traced back to its place of origin.

Namdhari's Fresh grows most vegetables throughout the year. Produce is grown on Namdhari's Fresh, own field farms and in our green houses (5 ha.). For outsourcing Namdhari has more than 2000 growers available. To ensure quality an effective extension team monitors the farms and the growers. Namdhari follows the EC prohibition list for chemicals strictly. It is mandatory for growers to keep records of substances used and the team follows this up in order to ensure a safe product, which can be traced back to its source.