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Green Crop Hybrid Seeds
Our Farm
Raising Seed
Production Responsibly Since 1995
Every time you see ads for luxury townships, do you spot a whole new profit opportunity? Those verdant lawns and lush landscaping are greenbacks by another name. Add to it India's growing hunger for wheat, rice, corn, barley, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, and you have a winner on your hands.
Seeds are going to be the next big growth story in agriculture. Companies that develop, produce and market seeds will reap profits as Indian lifestyles and diets become richer. There are five reasons for my optimism. One, now that farmers have cash in hand, they want to invest in seeds which produce faster, healthier and larger crops from the same kerchief-sized plots.
Indian farmers have traditionally been reluctant to invest in technology. When it is cheaper to simply save a quarter of the crop as seeds for next year, why invest? But when the market is clearly able to pay your price, no farmer with the wherewithal is willing to be defeated by weather, poor rains, tired soils or farm size in his quest for profit.
The Founder of GCHS Mr. Shivam Goswami is a young vegetable seed cultivator and agricultural entrepreneur. Its is heard of his success and local fame in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India. His father worked hard shaping the seeds business in starting using traditional methods, earning enough to give a good financial support to him for his education and business start up as well.
Shivam had always known that he would come back to farm those vegetables fields after completing his education – but he had never imagined how different things would be for him.
In 2018, after finishing university, he heard about and joined the Green India Hybrid Seeds Pvt Ltd.- Hybrid Seeds Research & Development Programme. The project gave him a start-up kit containing fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, as well as quality, certified seed – and those few items forever changed the way he cultivated vegetables..
That first year, Shivam harvested more than 1.5 tonnes per hectare vegetables for the production of hybrid seeds – almost three times more than his father typically harvested the crops and produced the seeds using traditional methods.
The next year, the programme invited Shivam to participate in a four-month training on vegetable seed production. He also received technical support, including an irrigation pump, and gradually increased his harvest of high-quality certified seed. Each growing season, he sold the seed and invested his earnings into the next.
Shivam in GCHS lost a season’s crop in 2019 because of the herdsmen’s attack – but that didn’t stop him. In 2020, he replanted and sold his seed harvest of 2 tonnes per hectare.
“What I can earn in three months is more than what many young people working in offices in government jobs earn in a year,” he said. “Here, I can spend time with my family – and that is important to me.”
Shivam’s entrepreneurial spirit comes alive as he eyes the future. He is making plans to join with other young people trained by GreenIndia in vegetable seed production to open a certified vegetable seed business. Moreover, he is encouraging farmers to use high-quality certified seed by giving them starter kits of his certified seed for free. He always asks farmers to try planting his certified seeds side by side with their traditional seeds to compare their yield and quality – because he’s sure they’ll be back to buy more.
