ABOUT US
India’s First Organic
Farmers Producer
Company
About Us
Founded in 2004 and incorporated under the Companies Act of 1956, Gouranga Organic Farming, headquartered in Maharastra, Maharastra is the largest organic producer company in India owned by the farmers. We serve more than 2500 primary producer members in Maharastra. Gouranga Organic headquartered in Maharastra, Maharastra is the largest organic producer company in India, owned and run by the farmers, for the farmers. It was set up to embolden the farmers to take on the challenges of production, procurement, processing and marketing of Organic products in the domestic and international markets.
The company aims to cut out the middleman and hence ensures that the farmer benefits the maximum in the end pricing of his agricultural produce. The company also ensures an Organic premium over and above the market price so that the farmer has an incentive to follow Organic practices. Gauranga is registered with the Directorate General of Foreign Trade as an Importer – Exporter and is a ‘Registered Exporter Member’ of the Spices Board, Coffee Board, Coconut Board and the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).
The company has been successful in the wholesale export of Organic products to Europe and America for the past 13 years.
Sustainability
At Indian Organic Farmers Producer Company Limited, we believe that care for the environment & communities are fundamental to our business & integral to its success. We, therefore, invest substantially & continually to ensure that the environment we operate in is enriched by our activities & any social or environmental damage caused by our actions is minimized. Our products conform to multiple internationally recognized certification standards.
Organic Certification
The EU has established the standards, processes & enforcement procedures that govern the right to sell, label & represent products as organic. Our products are certified Fully Organic, under NPOP, by INDOCERT.
Fairtrade
Fairtrade certification is a product certification system where social, economic, and environmental aspects of production are certified against Fairtrade Standards for Producers and Traders. The Fairtrade system monitors the buying and the selling of the product until it is consumer packaged and labeled, by FLOCERT.