Valsad Agro Producers Co Ltd. (VAPCO) a company formed to increased the income of farmers to fulfil the dream of our Honorable Prime Minister.
Most of the promoters of the company are working committee members of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh an organisation working for farmers to solve their basic problems.
VAPCO is established with an aim to supply basic raw material like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, saplings etc at a nominal possible price and arrange to sell the produce of our farmers at a higher rate so that both in purchase as well as sale the farmer can save money and thereby increase their income.
The present market scenario is that the farmer has to purchase all his basic requirements at M.R.P. where as the aim is thatany goods supplied by VAPCO would be at marginal rates.
In order to achieve our goal we are forming “farmers clubs” in various villages which shall ultimately become member of VAPCO. This way we intend to cover most of the villages of Valsad District.
Our first priority is to supply basic materials to the farmers at reasonable rates hence we have setup an Agro Centre in Udvada from where we have started supplying various Agro products like pesticides, insecticides, Bio-pesticides, growth enhancers, material for irrigation, tractor equipments etc. of reputed companies like Dhanuka, Sumitomo, SWAL, Heera agro to name a few.
We have also started awareness camps for our farmers where the company representatives are educating our farmers regarding the adequate use of fertiliser, pesticides etc so that why can get residue free product.
Few years back Valsad district had huge plantation of Sugar cane, Paddy being its main crop. But due to manpower shortage and unhealthy policy of sugar mill the main crop of the district is mango but with mono crop there’s always a shortfall of production & that is being observed since last four years. To overcome this difficult situation the producer company is trying to introduce cultivation of different crop like Pepper, Lemongrass, Moringa, Custard Apple etc.
We’re also training our farmers to adapt to organic farming which is where the customers are head to and has a huge demand globally. With promoting cow based farming our farmers basic requirements will get minimised with no down side effect on production thus increasing overall net income.
We have along way to go but with the support of our farmer we will achieve our goals and in years to come value added products shall be made available in the market.
