WHO ARE WE
Vantage has established itself as one of the largest and most reliable organic food and feed ingredients brands globally. And in doing so, we have empowered farmer communities economically by helping them scale or market their high quality products.
In 2008, Vantage Organic started with a humble beginning yet with a high hope to offer quality organic products globally. Soon we realized the immense potential of organic farming to create not only a sustainable environment but also support the livelihoods of thousands of farmers globally.
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OUR JOURNEY
2020
January 1, 2020
We started shipping our organic soybean meal under our own organic certifications from Nigeria to the United States
2018
January 1, 2018
The company set up a branch in the city of Breda, The Netherlands. We also started organic soybean and organic ginger in the markets of Nigeria. Besides this, we started with 8 processing lines in our Indore factory, India
2017
January 1, 2017
We started production at a new processing unit with five processing lines of organic soymeal at the Indore unit. We also started studying the European region in the quest for setting up warehousing and supply chain for the commodities originating from the African continent and upgrading them into processing units
2016
January 1, 2016
We started with organic farming audits in Malawi and Tanzania. We also included certifications along with these projects in the Republic of Benin
2015
January 1, 2015
We started organic projects in Malawi and Nigeria with the help of local partners
2014
January 1, 2014
We stepped into Tanzania by signing an MOU on sustainable agriculture and organic farming with an NGO based out of Denmark, along with farmer registration
2013
January 1, 2013
We added imported processing equipment and expanded our capacity up to three times. We also expanded our farmer registration capacity up to 10000 for the MP project and set up a project with Organic ICS in Barmer, Rajasthan as well
2012
January 1, 2012
We started setting up the first Six ICSs with over 2500 farmers in the Guna region under organic certifications
2011
January 1, 2011
We entered the Indian market and started fieldwork in two districts namely Baran and Guna located in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh respectively.
2010
January 1, 2010
We added a new cleaning and grading setup for organic soybeans
2009
September 1, 2009
We started our own processing unit at a rented warehouse with one setup and started exporting our own processed organic soymeal into the European Union
2008
December 1, 2008
We exported organic soymeal as a third-party processing and our first export of organic soybeans.
2008
January 1, 2008
We registered ourselves in the name of Vantage OrganicFoods Pvt. Ltd. Our key focus is to trade organic products such as soybean, spices, oilseeds, and others
2007
January 1, 2007
We started as a consultancy service company in the name of Vantage Trade Services providing assistance in organic projects and export businesses.
Our Mission
To be globally known and recognized as the leading company in providing Organic and non-GMO Foods and feed Products
Our Vision
To maintain sustainability through a complete integrated man to market approach right from the raw material to finished product and from the finished product to the end consumer in synergy with the environment – earth – economy – ecology – ethics
Our Values
Sustainability is at the core of Vantage Organic. We believe in nurturing sustainable relationships too! We pride on our sustainable relations with our customers, investors, distributors and farmers globally based on trust and cooperation.
At Vantage Organic, we realize the significance of a healthy lifestyle and do our utmost to contribute to this goal. At the same time, we also ensure that our small farmers get reasonable prices for their produce. We aspire to improve the lives of people associated with Vantage Organic in every way possible.
Integrity in business with ethical practice, reliability and commitment for suppliers, processors and consumers.
VALUE CHAIN OPERATION
For sourcing Certified Organic Crops, Vantage works with smallholders in India and a couple of African countries. A brief description of our agricultural projects is presented here:
India
In India, we started developing our own organic farming projects with smallholder farmers from the year 2012. Initial visits were undertaken in the Baran district of Rajasthan and Guna in MP and a local NGO was partnered with to reach out to farmers. Together with the NGO staff, various farmers’ meetings were conducted in the villages to convince and induct farmers in our Grower Group Certification Scheme for Organic Farming.
But the partnership with this NGO didn’t last long as they were not able to keep up with the pace and quality required in the work. Therefore, we ventured into developing our own team of farm extension workers and started registering farmers. With this, we started our first organic production audit journey for the Kharif 2013 crop. In this first audit, 2383 farmers with a total of about 4000 Hectares were taken under certification in six groups registered on the APEDA portal with our office located in Guna city. Expansion and registering of new farmers continued after the audit in and around the Guna area in MP with a total number of 20,000 farmers in 40 groups with over 26,500 Hectares of land in the next three years. The key harvesting focus in the Guna project was soybeans with some other crops such as maize, wheat, mustard & rapeseed, urad, paddy, coriander, Bengal gram, lentil, etc.
In the year 2013, we started another project in the Barmer district, Rajasthan and in two years we registered about 50,000 farmers in 200 groups with about 1,50,000 Hectares of land. The major crops here included cumin, Psyllium, castor, wheat, gram, moong, moth, pearl millet, rapeseed, guar, etc. We also have a cattle population of 100,000 producing over 5,00,000 liters of organic milk per day with our farmers.
Tanzania
We started exploring organic farming projects and building our brand name outside of India in early 2014. Initially in Tanzania, we wanted to explore organic business opportunities to give our company a new dimension and African farmers a new opportunity. Later on, we were interested in organic sunflower, maize, sorghum, groundnut, and pigeon cultivation as well. We labored from the Southern Highlands to Dodoma, Tanzania’s capital.
We were involved in a number of projects aimed at increasing farmer capacity and educating them about good agricultural practices.
With a lot of hard work and effort, Vantage was able to expand its wings, and by the year 2019, we had over 20,000 farmers and 47,000 hectares of organic land.
Nigeria
After initiating the project in Tanzania, we went to Nigeria in May 2015 and started our project in Nigeria as well in partnership with the local team of an international volunteer-based organization. In February 2016, we got our certificate for about 2700 farmers with 8500 hectares of land yielding crops like soybeans, maize, cashew, and yam. We kept expanding our project and included about 19,000 farmers with about 48,000 hectares of land spread all over Nigeria from Lagos in South West up to Kaduna in the North Central part to Benue in South East. Nigeria has the potential to cultivate soybeans, maize, cassava, yam, cashew, sesame, moringa, and many other crops.
Benin
In the year 2016, together with the network of our Nigerian partners, we initiated projects in the neighboring country Benin Republic too. In December 2016, we got our first batch of an estimated 1300 farmers with 2000 hectares of certified land. We kept on increasing the farmers’ base and in 2019 we have about 5200 farmers with over 12,000 hectares of land certified for organic farming. The major crops in Benin are Soybeans, cashew, palm, sesame, etc. The project has now expanded from the capital Cotonou in South upto Natitingou in North.
