Welcome to my blog

Hello everyone. Myself Surbhit from Bhopal, MP , India. I am a masters mechanical engineering. Having completed my studies from The University of Manchester, UK, I had to head back to India due to family reasons. Once I came back, I read this constant news of fresh harvested crops like tomatoes, onions, carrots etc being thrown away by the farmers in India due to low selling price. This has been an issue for a long time now. The fresh F&V market has been highly volatile in terms of the rates. Upon research I discovered this was mainly due to poor storage conditions which force the farmers to dispose off their harvest as soon as possible. Due to which I decided to start a blog in order to spread the word about good practices about storage of F&V products as well the potential of food processing using the harvested crops.

Living as a student forced me to buy canned pre-processed products in order to save time and money. I used to regularly buy canned tomatoes to prepare my gravy, even bought pre-cut vegetables when I felt lazy. This helped me when I moved back in India as I saw a relatively untapped market in India and an abundance of raw material. News of farmers throwing their crops because of low rates made it clear to me that I need to enter this market. Not because it will fetch me great profits (which It might), but the farmers will be able to sell directly to me without worrying about the rates and the fuss of selling in the mandis. Moreover, it will help them generate a stabilized income for their families.

Therefore, I decided to start my own company- Vardhman Agrofresh Products where I am establishing a cold storage and a tomato processing facility in order to support the agriculture in the state.

And with the help of this blog I want to address the issues, innovations, trends pertaining to this volatile sector and explain it to people how processing of the surplus crops can help regularize the market as well as generate income.

You can find my contact information on this page- https://vardhmanagrofresh.food.blog/contact/