KisanServ Starts ‘Giving Back to Farm’ Initiative; Distributes Organic Compost to 200 Farmers

Agritech Start-up KisanServ, which turns wet waste compost, organised a farmers’ meet to distribute free organic composts. This initiative is said to help the company join hands with large housing societies and help them process wet waste. Processed wet waste will be turned into organic compost for farmers.

Increasing food consumption, urbanisation, growth in large housing societies and fewer dumping grounds, wet waste processing are some of the major challenges in urban India. Lack of innovative ideas and technology-based solutions have further acted as roadblocks to transform waste to wealth and benefit the farmers.

KisanServ, through its social initiative, organized farmers' meet in Manchar district of Maharashtra, distributed organic compost to around 200 farmers which was processed and donated by housing societies in Pune. The company claims to keep sustainability, innovation and technology at its core, and establish a balance between urban and rural India.

According to it, the initiative brings multiple benefits such as transforming waste to compost in large residential societies, benefiting farmers with organic compost, enriching soil quality and protecting the environment.

Niranjan Sharma, Co-founder and CEO KisanServe said, "The wet waste, coming out of large housing societies in metros, is a burden for urban India. Also, it is tough for societies and municipal corporations to single-handedly process it and make it useful. Similarly, farmers too are in need of organic waste at low or free of cost to enrich soil health and eco-friendly farming. This initiative finds a perfect link between the challenges of urban and rural India with a common solution to benefit all. This is a great social service and we feel happy to serve the farmers".  

KisanServ has joined hands with third parties and large housing societies including Park Royale Housing Society, in Pune, to help them process wet waste into organic compost. This initiative also helps residential societies comply with municipal corporation’s rules which make it mandatory to process wet garbage in the society itself by installing a composting machine.

Recently, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has said that it would not lift wet waste from as many as 700 residential societies that generate more than 100 kg waste. Instead, the civic body has asked the societies to segregate wet and dry waste and convert wet waste into compost within their premises. The initiative helps such societies process the waste and municipal corporations who are struggling to dump yards for wet garbage by reducing waste.

KisanServ is currently in Maharashtra having 14 collection centres in rural India. The company is buying fruits and vegetables from farmers directly and serving to its customers in urban India. It uses its reverse logistics to bring back compost from urban India to rural India and distribute the same to farmers free of cost.

Founded in April 2015, by Niranjan Sharma, Praveen Tiwary and Arun kumar, KisanServ is a full stack B2B2C Agritech company connecting farmers directly with Customers’ demand through technology. The company optimizes market linkage within food sourcing.