Strengthening fruits and vegetables value chains in Punjab
PAGREXCO
Strengthening fruits and vegetables
value chains in Punjab
At PAGREXCO, we dedicate ourselves to minimizing the gap between farmers and consumers by contributing to a paradigm shift in how food is produced, processed, and sold. We are adding investments in agri value chain for preservation, grading and sorting of fruits and vegetables.
What We Do
PAGREXCO has established a state-of-the-art infrastructure to meet all the needs related to processing, grading, sorting, and transporting fresh fruits and vegetables.
We are responsible for promoting fresh fruits and vegetables, making farmers self-reliant by providing market linkage and access to more consumers, and helping the state’s farmers realize better returns for their produce.
- To attain increased efficiency and reduced risk, we at PAGREXCO work hard to build close relationships with farmers and help them get remunerative prices for their produce.
- We purchase Fruits and vegetables directly from farmers as per pre-existing prices. Subsequently, we sort and grade at our pack-houses and prepare them for export and distant national markets.
Market Linkage
- We identify farmer’s product and link them with commercial and institutional buyers.
- Facilitate the development and negotiation of contracts via facilitation model.
- Education and creating value through development of packing, branding (Under brand Five Rivers) and exposing farm output direct to consumer market and commercial establishment.
- PAGREXCO also markets agricultural products such as the Kinnow fruit at the pan-India level. We are tied up with prominent e-market companies such as Bijak, Wegrow, Big Basket, NeML, and Sammunanti, giving farmers access to better facilities and lucrative prices.
- PAGREXCO set up pack-houses for washing, grading, sorting, and packaging agricultural and horticultural products in Punjab, providing facilities for distant marketing and exporting fruits and vegetables.
- Strategically located in the fruits and vegetables growing clusters of Punjab like Fazilka, Hoshiarpur, Bhatinda, Mukhtasar Patiala, Sangrur, Ludhiana, Ropar, etc., these pack houses serve facilities like washing-waxing-grading-packing, pre-cooling, and cold storage.
- There are six pack-houses are spread over half an acre of land and act as a collection or sourcing centre for fruits and vegetables in their respective regions.
