Farming
Three supply routes. One kernel standard.
Own farms, contract partners and disciplined procurement work as one Indian sourcing system.
Resilience comes from more than one field.
Each sourcing route has a different role. The quality gate stays the same.
Own and leased farms
These fields establish the agronomy playbook, trial new approaches and set the quality reference for the wider network.
Contract farming
Planned cultivation and a shared kernel standard extend organised popcorn farming through partner growers.
Supply resilience
Open-market procurement
Additional graded lots support demand when own and partner crops are committed.
Contract-farming programme
Support before risk.
The programme is designed around what determines the crop and what protects the farmer.
Select the crop
Popcorn-maize seed and a season plan are matched to the farm and growing conditions.
Support the season
Field teams guide planting density, crop nutrition, protection and harvest timing.
Protect the kernel
Harvest and drydown are managed to reduce shell damage before the lot reaches grading.
Receive the lot
Partner-farm harvests enter the same intake, grading and conditioning system as every other Venagro lot.
7,000
acres cultivated across three states.
Karnataka
Telangana
Andhra Pradesh