Agri-commerce platform Arya.ag aims to boost its net revenue by over 30%, targeting Rs 600 crore in the current fiscal year, up from Rs 450 crore in FY25.
“We have seen growth in the storage part quite significantly. We’ve also seen healthy growth in the loans being disbursed, and also in the volume of farm produce being sold through the platform. In each of these areas, we are seeing growth,” Prasanna Rao, CEO and co-founder of Arya.ag, told FE.
“As we store more commodities through Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), more loans are being disbursed, which enables us to sell more produce through our platform,” Rao said.
Arya.ag provides storage as a service, along with finance and commerce, to farmers, collectives, and traders.
In FY25, Rs 5200-crore worth of agri-commodities was traded on Arya’s platform. This figure is expected to rise to Rs 6,000- 6,500 crore in the current year.
Rao also anticipates similar growth in profit as its turnover in FY26. The company has reported a profit after tax of Rs 32 crore in FY25, which is an increase of 70% from 2023-24.
The company handled around 8 million tonne (MT) of non-perishable agricultural commodities – paddy, wheat, maize, pulses etc in FY25 which is expected to go up to 10 MT in the current fiscal.
Currently, around 2,000 farmer producer organisations (FPOs), representing 0.9 million farmers, 500 small aggregators and commission agents, more than 2,000 pulses and flour millers, and approximately 100 corporates—including ITC, Adani, Britannia, and Olam—store and sell their commodities in warehouses listed on the Arya platform.
The company has taken on board around close to 12,000 warehouses across 21 states, managing 3,500 of them directly. The remaining warehouses are listed on the platform for discovery by stakeholders.
To set up 250 smart farm centers in next 18 months
Meanwhile, the company announced the setting up of 17 smart farm centres (SFC) in proximity to FPOs across Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Gujarat and BiHAR, offering a host of agricultural solutions and technologies free of cost to farmers.
The company aims to establish 250 SFCs over the next 18 months. Each centre caters to at least two farmers’ collectives engaged in cultivation of non-perishable commodities such as paddy, soyabean, corn, cotton and lentils.
Arya has partnered with five start-ups offering various solutions: BharatRohan (drone imaging and precision spraying), Neoperk (IoT-based soil intelligence), Fyloo (weather and climate analytics), Finhaat (climate-based parametric insurance) and Farm Bridge (training and package of practices).
The cost is borne by buyers who are keen to purchase produce from the farmers. “One entity cannot address the array of problems in agriculture. Through partnership, technology is taken to the doorstep of farmers at no cost,” Rao said.