Arya and ESAF Cooperative Join Hands to Deploy Post-harvest Services

KOCHI:
India’s largest post-harvest Agri-Tech player, Arya Collateral has announced a partnership with ESAF SwasrayaMultistate Agro Cooperative Society Ltd. to provide post- harvest services to smallholders, farmer cooperative societies, farmer producer organizations, and small and medium Agro processors of Kerala. The project has been launched at KINFRA Mega Food Park, Kanjikkode, with a total area of 80,000 sqft that includes three warehouses.

The storage capacity of these three warehouses together is about 15000 Metric tons. This association will strengthen ESAF’s contribution to the farm economy of the state. It will augment private player participation in the procurement and processing of paddy. It would also enable local sourcing and storage of maize, rationalizing operational costs of feed input for poultry as well as cattle farms in the state. The low-cost aggregation and scientific storage management of essential food commodities will help overcome the pandemic-induced value chain disruptions and ensure smoothening of prices in the near and mid-term.

K. Paul Thomas, Founder of ESAF Group of Social Enterprises said “Overall strengthening of the farm ecosystem is an important aspect in improving the agri-entrepreneurial activity of the state. This particularly has relevance in current times when livelihood sources are scarce and stressed. ESAF has partnered with Arya, a foremost post-harvest technology player, in its endeavor to support vibrant post-harvest activities and give thrust to the much needed rural economy of the state”.

Excited about this partnership,Anand Chandra, Executive Director, Aryasaid,”We are excited in this association with ESAF, and are very confident about the important role that ESAF can play in catalyzing the much needed entrepreneurial activity for rural farm economy of Kerala”