Our Story

It all started with the efforts of helping the street fruit vendors. As we offered to buy their unsold perished stock, we looked for ways to use it. This led us to more such businesses and ultimately, entire cities which were dealing with this problem of organic waste.

This led us to develop our initial concepts of ‘soil-saviour’ which solves the problems of organic waste as well as degrading soils.

The contact with the farmers and listening to their stories led us to start ‘Kshetrin’ with an aim to provide a one-stop solution to all their problems. We met and spoke to farmers, professionals with decades of experience, government officials, NGOs, and consumers. All their inputs have shaped us today.

One noteworthy experience was working with a municipal corporation with around 200,000 population. It generated more than 25 tonnes of organic waste a day across the city. Though the city was doing everything in its capacity to manage it, the sorry state of collection vehicles, the plight of the women staff told us about the need of private players in this space.

The rusted iron collection boxes were damaged from the bottom, spilling leachate, and were becoming health hazards. The collection process was very labour intensive and potentially unsafe. Segregation of the waste was manual and not very thorough. As the composting was being done in open pits, it was taking months to complete and could not produce a uniform product. The product did not satisfy the standardised requirements and was not very useful in the end. We took all this into account while designing our solution.