INI Farms expands export basket to include grapes, mangoes

INI Farms Pvt Ltd — a significant exporter of banana and pomegranates — has expanded its product portfolio with seasonal fruits like grapes, mangoes and oranges, and is eyeing more recent marketplaces in China and Australia.

INI Farms, which has specific a 5-fold revenue development by 2025-2026 fiscl at ₹1,000 crore, exports to Europe, West Asia and South-East Asia less than the Kimaye manufacturer and expects to shut the present fiscal with revenue of shut to ₹200 crore.

“We have made a pipeline from the farms to the merchants globally. We believe that we can press much more products now,” claimed Pankaj Khandelwal, Chairman and Running Director. The enterprise began exports of grapes this yr and is also on mangoes in the present time.

“We exported four various versions of grapes from India this yr, which we will expand considerably heading forward,” Khandelwal claimed. INI Farms will be sourcing grapes from farmers in the vital producing regions of Nashik and Sangli in Maharashtra.

Newer geographies

In addition to the present marketplaces, INI Farms will be focussing on China and Australia, the two new marketplaces that have opened up for Indian grapes. “As much as China is worried, we have a logistics benefit compared to other grape producers this kind of as South Africa and Chile. It is challenging to evaluate the industry suitable now mainly because it has just opened up. From in general industry dimension, it should be incredibly significant,” he claimed.

INI Farms has been functioning with farmers and farmer producer organisations constructing a source chain for these new seasonal fruits like mangoes, grapes and oranges. “For mangoes, we are concentrating mostly on the exportable versions this kind of as Alphonso, Kesar, Banganapalli and Safeda,” he claimed. The enterprise will be introducing oranges in the domestic industry this yr on a trial foundation.

INI Farms, which earns about eighty five per cent of its revenues from the export industry, bore the brunt of Covid lockdown on its functions. Though most of the issues are again to normal at the operational stage, the enterprise even now faces difficulties on the disruption in logistics. “There is even now no clarity and it may well consider 3 to six months to resolve, but rise in logistic fees is hurting us,” he claimed.