Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business?
Mr. Laxmi Prakash Semwal : We got the idea of “Fostering farmers organisation with business rigour” from our experiences of working with small farmers collectives.
The services provided by our company to farmers are:
ICT enabled commodity trekking software for input application, production support system and harvesting.
Marketing of farmers products at farm gate.
Fair price based payment system and
Financial adviser.
Great Companies: What makes FFT Himalayan Fresh Produce pvt. Ltd. . different from hundreds of other similar service providers?
Mr. Laxmi Prakash Semwal : The specific business model of partnership with farmers collectives makes our company different from other companies.
Great Companies: What were the struggles and challenges you faced and how did you overcome them?
Mr. Laxmi Prakash Semwal :Through cross sectors collaboration approach we overcome the challenges of working with multi stakeholder company.
Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for FFT Himalayan Fresh Produce pvt. Ltd. .?
Mr. Laxmi Prakash Semwal : Future plans.
Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?
Mr. Laxmi Prakash Semwal : Our advise for replication:
Consider Happiness as impact of partnership based social businesses